Photo Credit: Dario Lozano-ThorntonInterview by Chimedum Ohaegbu Francesca Ekwuyasi’s debut novel, Butter Honey Pig Bread (Arsenal Pulp Press, 2020), was a contender for Canada Reads and was long-listed for the Scotiabank Giller Prize. The book moves through three perspectives,...
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 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 Sandro Pehar Interview by Chimedum Ohaegbu Téa Mutonji’s debut Shut Up You’re Pretty is the first book out of Vivek Shraya’s Arsenal Pulp imprint, VS. Books. In rhythmic prose, the collection follows Loli’s journey as she deals with...
From left to right: Mikayla Ruppe, Natalie Lim, Chimedum Ohaegbu and Stephanie Chang Interview by Isabella Wang As a young writer, there is nothing I love more than being out there in the community. Sometimes, that community is built...