ArticlesBibi Ukonu
Bibi Ukonu is a trained architect, poet, novelist, and publisher. He is the author of the award-winning collection of stories Things That Start Small but Sweet, and two collections of poems. He has served as a juror of the Carol Shields Winnipeg Book Award (Manitoba Book Awards), and also a juror of the James Currey Prize for African Literature, based in the United Kingdom. He also writes for the architecture magazine, LivinSpaces. Bibi lives in Winnipeg with his wife and three beautiful kids.
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FictionMerry Bell returns to investigate missing quarterback in 2nd book of series
Anthony Bidulka’s new novel, From Sweetgrass Bridge, is the second in his Merry Bell mystery series about a trans private investigator who returns to her hometown in Saskatchewan and sets up shop. -
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. -
FictionBlack queer joy and ‘deliberately hidden’ history brought to life in playful, poetic style
Suzette Mayr’s latest novel, The Sleeping Car Porter, began with a challenge posed by one of her former writing teachers, the poet Fred Wah – he suggested she write about train porters. “I didn’t know what he was talking about, and I didn’t know what history he was referring to,” she says. -
Non-FictionPhotojournalist chronicles adaptation, everyday heroes during COVID-19 in Alberta
Leah Hennel, a Calgary-based award-winning photojournalist and a staff photographer for Alberta Health Services, has captured memorable moments of sadness, fear, courage, hope, and above all, resilience in her most recent book, Alone Together: A Pandemic Photo Essay.
