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What’s Sarah Totten Reading?
Reading: Piazza, Jo. If Nuns Ruled the World: Ten Sisters on a Mission. Open Road Media, 2014. Since my day job involves reading non-fiction, a non-fiction book has to be very unusual to entice me to read it in my free time. Each of the ten chapters in this book features a different nun’s life […]
What is Terry Watada Reading?
I am reading, every chance I get, Killing Commendatore by Haruki Murakami. It’s a long book (over 600 pages) and really heavy in weight – too hard to read in bed as a result. My wife and I noticed a few novels ago that the settings, incidents and characters in his writing are not so […]
Outside the Comfort Zone: On Creative Community
This feature is part of the Platform Series, which was made possible with generous support from the City of Waterloo and the Kitchener-Waterloo Community Foundation. Read more about the Platform Series here. Introduction Tanis MacDonald When I was writing my memoir-in-essays, Out of Line: Daring to Be an Artist Outside the Big City, I searched […]
Seen, Unseen: An Interview with Meaghan Rondeau
“To never be seen. To be unseeable, to not occupy physical space, to be present only as absence. To nonexist. That was the fantasy, although I didn’t articulate it to myself in those terms then.” Meaghan Rondeau, “Half-Thing” TNQ’s 2018 Edna Staebler Personal Essay Contest winner is BC writer Meaghan Rondeau, for her remarkable […]
What is Fiona Tinwei Lam Reading?
I’m currently re-reading a number of Ellen Bass’ fabulous poems in Like a Beggar (Copper Canyon Press, 2014) and Evelyn Lau’s lyrical gems in Tumour (Oolichan, 2016), while dipping into W. S. Merwin’s Selected Translations (Copper Canyon, 2013). I especially love his terse, concise translations of Malay, Korean, Japanese and Chinese figures, plus the variety […]
Bernadette Rule’s Writing Space
As you will be able to deduce by the telephone in my study, I have no social media handles. My friend and fellow writer, BD Ferguson, always asks whether we’re waiting for a call from the Kremlin when she sees my “Cold War phone”. My study was carved from a small room behind my living […]
What’s David Yerex Williamson Reading?
Over the Christmas break, I read This Wound is a World by Billy Ray Belcourt. Belcourt’s intense collection of poetry about love, loss, politics of race and gender won the 2018 Griffin Prize and the 2017 Best book of Poetry by CBC. Despite these accolades, it wasn’t until I attended the Voices in the Circle […]
What’s Jenny Boychuk Reading?
My 2019 resolution was to read more books. While I’ve always been a steady and consistent reader, I had stacks of unread books piling up (I buy them faster than I can read them—hopefully others can relate) and the sight of them was stressing me out. So, I decided to craft a 2019 Reading List, […]
Carrie Snyder’s Writing Space
My word for the year is SPACE. In choosing it, I’ve been thinking conceptually, holding in my mind the idea of space as time, a luxurious clean openness into which I might step, spreading out thoughts and dreams and words with enough room to really look at and enjoy the creation of something larger than […]
What’s Adan Jerreat-Poole Reading?
Right now I am reading How Long ‘Til Black Future Month? by N.K. Jemisin. As a teenager, I loved getting lost in science fiction and fantasy worlds, but as a young queer woman (and later nonbinary person) and aspiring feminist, I quickly grew tired of the racist and sexist hero journeys in popular Eurocentric […]
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