We are delighted to share an excerpt from “Lady with the big head chronicle” by Angélique Lalonde, which appears in our SPRAWL issue (58.3). When the editors were putting SPRAWL together, this captivating story was everything we dreamed would...
We asked Jade Wallace to tell us a bit about the process of writing their poem “Contretemps,” which appears in issue 58.3 SPRAWL. You can buy the issue or subscribe to read another of Jade’s poems, “Phenomenology of Night,”...
Photo by David Mandville Get to know Carmella Gray-Cosgrove, whose story “The Dance of the Cygnets” appears in our SPRAWL issue (58.3). Symbiotic relationships are at the core of this piece of short fiction, in which the narrator transits...
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,...