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FictionCampfire tales told in Indigenous horror genre blend classic and modern forms
Born and raised on the Swan River First Nation community in Northern Alberta, lifelong comics lover Christopher Twin noticed a lack in the type of stories out there – and decided to write those stories himself. -
FictionStories of revolution drew David Bergen to explore tumult of WWI-era Ukraine
David Bergen’s brilliant new novel, Away from the Dead, is set in Ukraine during the turbulent years of 1899 to the early 1920s, encompassing both the First World War and the Ukrainian civil war. -
PoetryPoetry collection grasps after communal ‘we,’ hostility inherent in the city
Nikki Reimer is a multimedia artist, a writer, and a chronically ill neurodivergent Prairie settler. She says that her new collection of poetry, No Town Called We, is for anyone who finds comfort in melancholy. -
PoetryNew translation of Tsangyang Gyatso’s poetry a reminder of appeal to modern readers
I Have Forsaken Heaven & Earth, but Never Forsaken You is the translation into English by Leilei Chen of the creative reworking by MA Hui of different Mandarin translations of the poetry of Tibet’s sixth Dalai Lama, Tsangyang Gyatso (1683–1706). -
DramaPlay set in Caribbean restaurant highlights broken immigration system
The play our place by Toronto-based playwright, librettist, and screenwriter Kanika Ambrose is set in the fictionalized Caribbean restaurant Jerk Pork Castle in Scarborough. Working there without documentation are Andrea and Niesha from the imagined Caribbean countries of Caviva and Fanon. Rounding out the cast are Malcolm and Eldrick, the potential love interests. -
FeaturesAnthology shares 40 accounts of learning from each other and the land
Across Indigenous territories, land-based activities provide the opportunity to practise community-based learning rooted in Indigenous perspectives. The amazing collection, Ndè Sı`ı` Wet’aɂà: Northern Indigenous Voices on Land, Life, and Art, edited by Kyla LeSage, Thumlee Drybones-Foliot, and Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, began as a document of land-based learning through the Dechinta Centre for Research and Learning, located in Yellowknife, N.W.T. -
FeaturesHumour is medicine in novel about two-spirit man confronting colonial legacies
Scott Mainprize’s new novel, The First Few Feet in a World of Wolves, tells a poignant, but humorous, story of a young, queer, two-spirit man with Algonquin heritage who is learning about and confronting the tragic histories of colonialism across Turtle Island. -
FeaturesPoet explores geologic formations, nature of the Earth in new collection
David Martin’s new collection of poetry, Kink Bands, is a veritable cave of treasures. It delves into theories of the creation of the Earth and the minutiae of elements that make up geological study. -
FeaturesConservation and wildlife focus of book that blends biography, history, calls to action
Lorne Scott is an environmentalist, naturalist, farmer, and former member of the Legislative Assembly and minister of Environment and Resource Management in Saskatchewan – a province with almost no environmental regulations, some of the highest carbon dioxide and methane emissions per capita, and less than 15 per cent of its grasslands remaining. -
FeaturesShort stories draw from intergenerational exchanges, negotiations with nature
In her debut short fiction collection, Half-Wild and Other Stories of Encounter, Emily Paskevics takes her characters – mothers, daughters, fathers, sisters – into wilderness settings such as forests, rivers, marshes, lakes, and islands, where they lose themselves and/or find what they’ve been missing.
