CREAN, PATRICK
PATRICK CREAN has been in the book publishing business for 48 years. He began his career in 1971 when he joined McClelland & Stewart as a junior editor. Over the years, he has edited both fiction and non-fiction at General Publishing, Somerville House, Key Porter, Thomas Allen (where he was the publisher for 12 years), […]
Book Review: My Father, Fortune-tellers & Me, A Memoir (Italian-Style)
My Father, Fortune-tellers & Me, A Memoir (Italian-Style) by Eufemia Fantetti Book Review By Jane Reid In this haunting memoir, author Eufemia Fantetti takes readers on a wild ride through a childhood steeped in Southern Italian superstitions, family loyalty at all costs and the immigrant experience. Her story begins with tarot cards—a suitable medium for […]
Small Game Hunting Packs an Intersectional Wallop
Book Review by Alli Vail Small Game Hunting at the Local Coward Gun Club by Megan Gail Coles packs an intersectional wallop. Not even 20 pages and two characters in, and author Megan Gail Coles has tackled racism, identity, poverty, sexism, the marginalization of indigenous people, family, alcoholism and revenge. Set in Newfoundland on Valentine’s […]
If you see him, say hello. Blog by Linda Kenyon
If you see him, say hello. Tell him I saw a heron in the park the other morning, on the bank of the creek, beside the culvert that runs under the railway track. I was so close that I could see the scraggy blue feathers on his throat and one yellow eye. What can be […]
A Prescient View of Humanity and Headlines in El Akkad’s American War
American War by Omar El Akkad Book review by Alli Vail It feels impossible to write about Omar El Akkad’s prescient American War without acknowledging realities south of the border and climate change. His novel spans decades but starts in 2074 America. The country is embroiled in civil war after fossil fuel is banned by […]
Worth the Wait – blog by Shelley A. Leedahl
This photo—taken minutes before the Toronto launch of The Moon Watched It All in March 2019—is significant to me for a few reasons. Firstly, the man to my left is Red Deer Press editor extraordinaire Peter Carver, whom I’ve had a professional relationship with since he edited my first illustrated book, The Bone Talker, in […]
AGM & Writing Workshop with Susan Juby
The Whistler Writing Society welcomes all members of the community to attend our Annual General Meeting Wednesday August 21st from 6 – 7 p.m. at the Whistler Public Library. Light refreshments will be served. Following the meeting award-winning author and humourist Susan Juby will lead a creative writing workshop Poke the Soufflé from 7 – […]
Whistler Writers Festival 2020
Online Festival Dates: Oct. 15-18. Tickets on sale Aug. 31, 2020. Photo: JENNIFER ASHTON
I’m drawn to the stories where a person takes a dark journey that irrevocably changes them
Written by Maureen Medved | #NoOneSucceedsAlone Over the years I’ve been influenced by the writers who’d come before me. I’m thinking of writers in every form and from every time, the archetypal stories that have been told through the centuries, to the contemporary writers in every genre who have inspired me over the years. I’ve […]
Collaborative writing is not about who wrote what and how much each of us are responsible for.
Written by Simon Groth | #NoOneSucceedsAlone Infinite Blue is a collaboration between me and my brother, Darren. We are separated by an ocean: he lives in Vancouver; I live in Brisbane. Maybe that’s why we can work together. People often ask us how it’s possible to write collaboratively, especially with a sibling. The rules we settled on go something like this: · […]