Interview by Cara Nelissen The Growing Room Festival is taking place from March 8-17, 2019. Below is an interview with Festival Director Chelene Knight about her vision for the festival, the work that goes into creating a space for...
Photo credit: Zachary Ayotte By jaye simpson I had the utmost pleasure of sitting down with Vivek Shraya to to talk about her book I Am Afraid of Men (2018, Penguin Press) which has garnered widespread attention, some of which...
In a recent review of Catriona Wright’s new book in Streeters, Eric McMillan wrote: “With their mixture of offbeat personalities, horrid situations and entertaining writing, Difficult People contains some of the most engaging new stories I’ve read for quite...
Questions by Kyla Jamieson Photo by Dana Jansens Get to know writer Djamila Ibrahim, whose poems “Bloodletting” and “Brine” appear in our winter issue 57.2. If you don’t have the issue yet, have a sneak peak at “Bloodletting”, which we...
The following is an excerpt from What the Poets Are Doing: Canadian Poets in Conversation, which will be published by Nightwood Editions in late November 2018. The book will feature conversations between twenty-two of Canada’s top modern poets. Marilyn Dumont:...
Interview by Tania De Rozario Thea Lim and I met in Singapore when we were twelve years old, in a queue to use the public telephone in the school canteen. We ended up classmates in high school and reconnected...
Interview by Carleigh Baker Photo credit: Red Works Photography 2018 Eden Robinson’s much-anticipated book Trickster Drift, the sequel to Giller Prize-shortlisted Son of a Trickster, came out this October. Carleigh Baker, author of the award-winning short story collection Bad...
MA|DE is a collaborative writing partnership comprised of interdisciplinary artist Mark Laliberte, author of asemanticasymmetry (Anstruther 2017) and writer Jade Wallace, author of Rituals of Parsing (Anstruther 2018). MA|DE is based in Toronto, Ontario, and are currently working on their first full-length collection of poetry. You can find MA|DE online at ma-de.ca, as well as their poetry on our website, and in the latest issue of DREAMS 57.1.
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Questions by Kyla Jamieson
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Get to know writer, PhD candidate and creative organizer Sanchari Sur, whose story, “The Lady and the Beard,” appears in our Dreams issue, 57.1.
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