Story Behind the Story – “A Boy of Good Breeding”
Read a sneak peak of Ben Ladouceur’s short story below and pick up your copy of our Summer issue, 56.4, for the rest!
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Summer Writing Prompt: Week 6
Repeat as needed. Summer Writing Prompts is a writing initiative by Claudia Wilde, a BFA student in the Creative Writing Program at UBC and creator of the feminist literary space, Daughters of Didion. Follow the walking volcano on Instagram: @clawdeeeeah.
Summer Writing Prompt: Week 5
Think spatially, sensually, texturally, and in colour. You may not include the titles of physical places. (This includes countries, cities, buildings, environments, etc.) Write, write, write! Summer Writing Prompts is a writing initiative by Claudia Wilde, a BFA student in...
Magnified and Shrunk: A Review of Lauren Groff’s Fates and Furies
Fates and Furies
Lauren Groff
Riverhead Books
Review by Claudia Wilde
Lauren Groff’s novel, Fates and Furies, is the first novel I was compelled to finish based almost solely off my fondness for the language. Never mind the story. (Which, by the way, is brilliant in its own right. I will get to this shortly.) Groff’s prose reads like poetry and the diction is precise, sticking to the tongue when spoken aloud: Continue reading Magnified and Shrunk: A Review of Lauren Groff’s Fates and Furies
Summer Writing Prompt: Week 3
Variations: – Write it in the form of a business email. Stick to a professional, clinical tone. Hash out the pros and cons of the relationship. Sign off appropriately. – Write a poem. Set it as your Tinder bio....
Summer Writing Prompt: Week 2
Did you wake up under the plush derriere of your cat? How about tangled under the syrupy arms of your lover? Did you spend the night, toe-to-chin, chin-to-toe, with a friend-of-a-friend on a sunken pullout sofa in the living...
Things Are Good Now: In Conversation with Djamila Ibrahim
Praised by Zoe Whittall, Djamila Ibrahim’s debut collection of short stories, Things Are Good Now, is a thoughtful exploration of immigrant experiences and universal themes that concern us all – identity, memory, resilience, and the complicated, and often sticky, web of human relationships. Continue reading Things Are Good Now: In Conversation with Djamila Ibrahim
Summer Writing Prompt: Week 1
Suggestions: – The lyrics from that early 2000s quasi-alternative-rock song your brother blasted from behind his bedroom door when you were both growing up. – The excerpt from that rap song that you usually just mumble. – That song you...
The Creative Process: Portrait of Yiyun Li
Interview and portrait by Mia Funk
“There is a clear-cut: old life, that’s old country, and here’s there’s new life, new country. It is an advantage. You are looking at life through an old pair of eyes and a new pair of eyes. And there’s always that ambivalence––Where do you belong? And how do you belong? And I do think these are advantages of immigrant writers or writers with two languages or who have two worlds.”
–YIYUN LI