ArticlesLaura McKay
Laura McKay (she, her, hers) is a speculative fiction writer from rural Manitoba. She is the managing editor at Portage & Main Press/HighWater Press. Find her online at writerlauramckay.ca.
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Young Adult/ChildrenOffbeat, vibrant, and darkly comedic film Runaway adapted as graphic novel
“I think a point can be made far better with humour than with dire earnestness,” Winnipeg-based Cordell Barker, creator of the animated short, Runaway (2009), says. The darkly comedic film seeks to convey “the sense of society willfully, or obliviously, racing along a one-way track to its doom.” -
FeaturesSharing the joy of outdoor play and the Michif language
Maintaining the Michif language is important to Winnipeg-based Métis author and musician Edgar Danny Desjarlais. “I was never given the opportunity to retain the language. I spent my formative years in the city, speaking English as my first language. When you don’t use it, you lose it,” he says.
