Photo by Brandi Bird The Growing Room Festival is taking place March 11-15, 2020. Check out their website for upcoming events, as well as accessibility info and their community guidelines for the festival. Below is an interview with festival...
Interview by Chimedum Ohaegbu A Growing Room 2020 Festival author, NASRA is a queer, Muslim, Oromo curator/creator living in Amiskwaciwȃskahikan (Edmonton) on Treaty 6 territory. They were the Youth Poet Laureate of Edmonton from 2016 to 2017. They are...
Photo by Erin FleggInterview by David Ly After a successful debut with If I Were in a Cage I’d Reach Out for You (Nightwood Editions, 2016), Adèle Barclay has reached out to us again with yet another stellar collection...
Photo credit: Caroline MorrisInterview by Emma Cleary We are grateful to Jonathan Wei for making time to talk with us about his rhythmically gripping CNF piece, “Dead Languages Or The What,” published in our Winter issue (58.2). Read on...
Interview by David Ly Alex Leslie’s latest poetry collection Vancouver for Beginners (Book*hug Press, 2019) is a ghost story, an elegy, and a love song for a city that is both indecipherable and a microcosm of a world on...
Interview by Deborah Vail I met Dr. Sonja Boon at a recent writing retreat in Trinity, Newfoundland organized by editor Allyson Latta. The official launch of her memoir, What the Oceans Remember: Searching for Belonging and Home (WLU Press,...
Photo by Michele ComeauInterview by Chimedum Ohaegbu Zalika Reid-Benta’s collection, Frying Plantain (House of Anansi Press 2019), is her splash-making debut, already garnering a spot on the Scotiabank Giller Prize longlist. The collection consists of twelve linked stories about...
Photo by Brigitte LacombeInterview by Chimedum Ohaegbu Mona Awad’s highly anticipated second book, Bunny (Viking, 2019), is a campus novel dipped in malice and wonder. The novel follows lonely MFA student Samantha Heather Mackey, who desperately longs for the...
Photo by Emily CooperInterview by Tania De Rozario I first met Ivan Coyote in 2018 while they were a writer-in-residence at Simon Fraser University’s English department. A seasoned performer and author of twelve books, Coyote’s latest collection, Rebent Sinner...