Photo provided by Arsenal Pulp Press Interview by Deborah Heslop Too often, the story of Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside is told solely through statistics of opioid overdose deaths, but award-winning journalist Travis Lupick delves into the community’s heart and...
This essay has been published in Before I Was a Critic I Was a Human Being by Amy Fung (Book*Hug, 2019) By Amy Fung Spending the better part of 2011 in the northeast of Scotland, in a tiny, violent town,...
Bad Ideas Missy Marston ECW Press, 2019 Review by Kris Rothstein Missy Marston’s novel Bad Ideas oozes the atmosphere evocative of life in a small rust belt town in the 1970s. Trudy lives with her mother Claire and four-year-old...
Little Girls Nicholas Aflleje, Sarah DeLaine, Ashley Lanni-Hoye & Adam Wollet Image Comics, 2019 Review by Nikki Holmes Little Girls is a standalone horror graphic novel from the creative team of Nicholas Aflleje (writer), Sarah DeLaine (illustrator), Ashley Lanni-Hoye (colourist), and...
The following is an excerpt from Coconut Dreams by Derek Mascarenhas Ricky’s dog Chaos was as big as a lion and as dumb as a turkey. She was a black Russian terrier, taller while on all fours than any of...
(Photo by Saima Khalid) Kate Black caught up with this year’s contest judge, Sharan Dhaliwal, to learn what she’s looking for in a winning entry and get a sneak peek into her latest work. Sharan is the editor-in-chief of Burnt Roti magazine,...
Severance Ling Ma Farrar, Straus and Giroux Review by Émilie Kneifel Brand names, and so many other unchosen memories, litter Ling Ma’s apocalypse in her debut novel, Severance. Their fluorescent logos—the seven, the eleven, that NY-loving heart—the epitome of...
From left to right: LJ Weisberg, Sussan Yanez, Emma Field, and Salena Wiener. Interview by Isabella Wang This is the second instalment of Isabella Wang’s conversation with young emerging writers. Check out the first part, in which young writers...
Photo by Sasha Aleshchenko Review by Issie Patterson It is not rare to go see a production put on by emerging young talent and immediately realize that some of these performers are destined for great success. This is the...
