Online Exclusives
Valerie Compton’s Writing Space
I am fortunate to have a peaceful home office with plenty of natural light, a broad desk and comfortable chair, a filing cabinet, and shelves of books. I do a lot of editing in my office, and it serves as a home base for my fiction projects. But I don’t write there. Perhaps perversely, I […]
Launched: Late Breaking by K.D. Miller
Welcome to Launched! The Launched series focuses on new Canadian books by Canadian authors. K.D. Miller’s latest book, Late Breaking, was released in October 2018 by Biblioasis. She is the author of four other story collections, a novel, and a book of essays. We discussed Late Breaking by email as the year drew to a […]
What is Lisa Alward Reading?
I’m about a third of the way through the 2018 edition of The O. Henry Prize Stories. I love short story anthologies and the O. Henry is my favourite, so I always make sure it turns up in my Christmas stocking. Not only are the stories consistently wonderful but the story of the series itself […]
Nathan Mader’s Writing Space
“OUT—IN” I have two writing spaces: OUT and IN. OUT is on the subway, walking the streets or in the woods, riding my bicycle, wandering museums, grocery shopping. OUT is any public space where the mind wants to swerve towards subconscious intuitions surrounding images, ideas, and imaginings searching for an unknown coherence. Poetry at its […]
Aviva Martin’s Writing Space
Writing Spaces Mostly I write lying down, my laptop unfolded, keyboard on my torso, the screen against the cushions that lean against my thighs. My head and neck are supported by a pillow so I can see both keyboard and screen. I’ve haven’t learned touch typing. Yet. I have a desk—a beautiful, metal, three-tiered, Ikea […]
Terry Watada’s Writing Space
Writing Spaces I’m too embarrassed to send a photo or a video. The space is too messy. I love that it’s in the basement office (created by former house owners). It’s away from family activity, yet not so isolated, since just up the stairs is the kitchen (for the coffee) and there is a second […]
Adan Jerreat-Poole’s Writing Space
Writing Spaces In the fall I had to move out of my Hamilton apartment because of a cockroach infestation (the glamorous life of a grad student and aspiring writer). Since then, I’ve been geographically unstable, moving between cities and rooms and comforters, home-making with a few favourite books, a miniature of Sadness from Inside Out, […]
What is Scott Armstrong Reading?
Who’s Reading What? Every year I try to re-read a Charles Bukowski book and one of his poetry collections. Currently, I am going through an early short story collection, South of No North. He is a master in brevity, and his stories are raw, dirty, and funny in a very human way. His poetry holds […]
Fiona Tinwei Lam’s Writing Space
Once a week, I go to a cafe on Main and Broadway to write with my long-time friend, playwright Loretta Seto. Bean Around the World is right at the crossroads between the east and west side of Vancouver, and is easy to get to via the 99 B-Line bus. It’s usually half-empty, so I can […]
What’s Bernadette Rule Reading?
One of my favourite writers is Anne Carson, particularly for Autobiography of Red, which is among my top ten favourite books. Even though I can’t always understand her, I find reading her instructive and inspiring. Before Christmas I was browsing in Hamilton’s wonderful used bookstore Westside Stories and found two Carson’s I hadn’t read before: […]
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