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FeaturesFreehand Books celebrates 100th release, and they’re no stranger to award nods by now
Since 2007, Calgary-based Freehand Books has been publishing a carefully curated list of award-winning Canadian fiction, non-fiction, and poetry. The press was originally established as the literary imprint of Broadview Press, an academic publisher, but in 2016 they made the move to become independent. -
Poetry‘Bonded relationship’ to 120-year-old house at centre of new poetry collection
What makes a home? What is the importance of rootedness? Catherine Owen explores these questions in a new collection of poetry, Moving to Delilah. The poems recount the experience of Owen’s move from an apartment in Vancouver to a house in Edmonton, and the new and surprising aspects of owning a home, growing a garden, and participating more deeply in community. -
Non-FictionCharlotte Bellows hopes to help teens struggling with eating disorders through debut memoir
Calgary’s Charlotte Bellows just graduated from high school this past June. But she already has another milestone to celebrate: the publication of her memoir, The Definition of Beautiful. -
PoetryCollaboration between photos and poems illuminate search for meaning, magic
Poems and photographs play off of each other to shed light on human existence in Sixty-Seven Ontological Studies: 49 Poems & 18 Photographs by long-time friends Jan Zwicky and Robert Moody. -
FeaturesBeaty threads hope for a better future through collection examining impacts of global warming
Georgina Beaty is a successful playwright and actor raised in the Rockies and based in Toronto. Now her accomplished debut story collection The Party Is Here fuses relationships and climate change. -
Non-FictionWeaving together the threads of writing and gender
Keith Maillard grew up knowing nothing about his father. On his father’s death, Maillard was given his scrapbooks, and set out to capture everything he remembered or knew about him, writing a first memoir, Fatherless, published in 2019. Maillard had generated a lot of text, not all about the senior Maillard. -
FictionDystopian tale takes on climate change, but is primarily about family
Watershed has been a work in progress for over 10 years, says Calgary-based author Doreen Vanderstoop. -
FictionWeaving a tale of trauma with empathy, honesty, and hope
Where do writers get their ideas? In the case of her latest novel, This Has Nothing to Do with You, Manitoba author Lauren Carter responded so strongly to a book about sibling relationships and family secrets that she penned her own novel along similar themes. -
FictionA complex pairing delves into genetics and identity
Vancouver-based Keith Maillard has published more than a dozen novels in his long career. His latest, Twin Studies, concerns a brother and sister who claim to be identical twins. What follows is a story about identity, loss, and gender. And twins.
