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Young Adult/ChildrenRaconter en rimes : une façon motivante d’écrire
Pour Diane Therrien Freynet, raconter des histoires a toujours fait partie de sa vie. Alors qu’elle grandissait dans des communautés rurales manitobaines, elle aimait lire et écrire et a développé un véritable penchant pour les rimes, qu’elle récitait souvent à ses jeunes neveux et nièces. -
Young Adult/Children
Rhyming picture book brings festival to life, celebrating Franco-Manitoban traditions
For Diane Therrien Freynet, storytelling has always been a part of her life. Growing up in rural Manitoba, she loved reading and writing and developed a real penchant for rhyming, often reciting to her younger nieces and nephews. -
PoetryLa collection déambule d’un repère à l’autre alors que Seream célèbre « 30 ans d’agitation poétique »
Le buste d’un personnage historique. La rue qui, pour une écrivaine, a menée au grand succès. Un pont. Ce ne sont que quelques repères qui se retrouvent dans Géographies du présent, la nouvelle collection de poèmes du poète, poète slammeur, chanteur, acteur et peintre, Seream. -
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Collection wanders through landmarks as Seream celebrates ‘30 years of poetic agitation’
The bust of a historical figure. The street that led a local writer to great success. A bridge. These are just some of the landmarks that appear in Géographies du présent, the latest collection of French poems by poet, slam poet, singer, actor, and painter Seream. -
FictionNew mystery series to follow Imogene Durant through cities across the globe
In Victor & Me in Paris, the first in the new Imogene Durant Mystery series by Edmonton writer Janice MacDonald, retired academic Imogene Durant heads to Paris – with beloved French writer Victor Hugo as her guide – to read and to work on a followup to her notable book Fyodor & Me in Russia. -
Novella’s experimental approach shows the world through Kid’s eyes
Harman Burns’s arresting debut, the novella Yellow Barks Spider, is an experimental trans Bildungsroman that follows the protagonist, Kid, through childhood and adolescence into adulthood. -
FictionShort story collection explores the concept of fear itself
Everyone is afraid of something. It could be as grand as a meteor striking Earth and ending life as we know it. Or it could be as small as a spider crawling across the bottom of a bathtub. For most sensible people, it’s clowns, which are somewhere in the middle. -
PoetryPoet/scientist shows her mind’s workings with OCD in various forms
Samantha Jones is a poet and earth/ocean scientist with OCD and a deep commitment to whimsy. “I think play and whimsy are so important for innovation, whether in poetry or science,” says the Calgary-based writer. -
PoetryCollection is a ‘love letter for anyone who feels ostracized’
What started off as a university portfolio project has become Bret Crowle’s debut collection of poetry, Jesus Is a Voyeur. “Honestly, it feels simultaneously surreal, unreal, and too real. The idea of publishing a book has been a dream of mine since I was young,” she says. -
DramaPlaywrights float through time, illuminate Métis story from Laurence’s work
In The Diviners, adapted from Margaret Laurence’s classic Canadian novel, playwrights Vern Thiessen and Yvette Nolan focus on the adult Morag Gunn – a novelist with writer’s block who is estranged from her daughter, Pique, and who struggles with alcoholism.
