Roo Borson on Risk
At a time when commentators on the nightly news talk almost calmly about the renewed threat of nuclear war, one of the necessary responses is to think again about what we hold dear, and about those things we would preserve. These include not only life itself, but those endeavours, including the sciences and the […]
Monia Mazigh on Risk
When I was a little girl I loved the carousel at the fair but my favourite ride was a rocket space ship because it made me feel like I am traveling in the sky among planets and stars. I closed my eyes and let my imagination run wild as the heavy rocket filled with screaming […]
Mark Leiren-Young on Risk
As any reader knows it’s always risky to chase a whale – and I’ve pursued Moby Doll three times longer than crazy Captain Ahab searched for Moby Dick. Almost twenty years ago I pitched the story of the first ever killer whale displayed in captivity as a book, a film, an article and a radio […]
John MacLachlan Gray on Risk
“Risk” is something I’ve never quantified or even thought about, because my expectations have always been so low. Growing up in Nova Scotia, to suggest that you wanted to write books or plays was like saying you wanted to join the circus as a fire eater. So when I began writing, I assumed I’d live […]
Helen Humphreys on Risk
Increasingly, I have come to dislike both the limits of genre and the invisibility of process. With The Ghost Orchard, I wanted to push at both of these boundaries by mixing non-fiction, memoir, and fiction, and by showing the research for the book as part of the book itself. I was using mostly original […]
Williams, Jenny D.
WILLIAMS, JENNY D. has lived and worked in the U.S., Germany, and Uganda. She holds an MFA from Brooklyn College and a BA from UC Berkeley. Her award-winning fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and illustrations have been published or are forthcoming in The Sun Magazine, Vela, Ethical Traveler, and Michigan Quarterly Review as well as several anthologies. A […]
Watada, Terry
WATADA, TERRY is a poet (with four published titles), a playwright (with seven plays produced), a short story writer (with a published collection), a children’s book writer (two titles), a historian (two titles), and writer of two manga. He has also edited several anthologies. His first novel, The Blood of Foxes, was published in 2007. He […]
Ulrich, Shari
ULRICH, SHARI’s 40 year career, from Pied Pumkin through The Hometown Band, and on as a solo artist and multi-instrumentalist has lead to 24 albums including her collaboration with Bill Henderson and Roy Forbes (UHF) Barney Bentall & Tom Taylor (BTU), and the bluegrass band The High Bar Gang. Her work has garnered 2 Juno […]
Taylor, Drew Hayden
TAYLOR, DREW HAYDEN is an Ojibway from the Curve Lake First Nations in Ontario and an award-winning playwright, journalist, short-story writer, novelist, commentator, script-writer and documentarian. As a writer/creator, he strives to educate and inform about issues that interfere with, reflect on and celebrate the lives of Canada’s First Nations. With around 30 books to […]
Sutherland, Suzanne
SUTHERLAND, SUZANNE is the Children’s and YA Editor at Harper Collins Publishers in Canada, where she has worked with internationally bestselling authors such as Kenneth Oppel, Emma Donoghue, Dennis Lee and Kit Pearson. She is also the author of three novels for teens, including her most recent, Under the Dusty Moon.