ArticlesMargaret Goldik
Margaret Goldik is a Montreal writer and editor, but currently is constantly wearing her editor’s hat as a lot of people have been writing feverishly during the pandemic.
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FeaturesHistorical novel grew from a father’s secret double life in WWII
When Vancouver-based author Genni Gunn’s mother moved house, she found a cache of her late husband’s wartime documents, which disclosed that he had been in the Special Operations Executive in Italy during the Second World War, aiding the Allies. -
FictionStory collection is proof of passion kept alive as author moved from literature to law
Nigerian Canadian Irehobhude O. Iyioha started writing early, when she was about six years old. She always knew she wanted to write, and she says “leaving the English and Literature Department (at the University of Benin in Nigeria) to study law did not change the passion.” -
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. -
FictionA powerful novel of ecological interconnectedness
In The Book of Rain, award-winning Edmonton-area author Thomas Wharton tells a riveting tale of the impact that human choices have on our world. -
Non-FictionInterviews, analysis explore themes such as resilience in Miriam Toews’ work
Dr. Sabrina Reed, an English professor at Mount Royal University in Calgary, gives academics and non-academics alike a fascinating look at the oeuvre of a celebrated Canadian writer. In Lives Lived, Lives Imagined: Landscapes of Resilience in the Works of Miriam Toews, Reed uses interviews with Toews, as well as the writings of others, to take an insightful look at Toews’s exploration of resilience. -
FictionA weapon, an obsession, and a father-daughter bond form centre of Sweatman’s latest
Margaret Sweatman is a force of nature. The Winnipeg-based writer is an essayist, poet, playwright, musician, and songwriter who received a Genie award for a song she co-wrote with Glenn Buhr. Her fiction has also won many awards, including the Rogers Writers’ Trust, the McNally Robinson Book of the Year, and the Sunburst awards. The Gunsmith’s Daughter is her sixth novel. -
FictionLaugh-out-loud humour and sadness mix in novel about belonging and alienation
Winnipeg-based Méira Cook is an award-winning author and poet, and her latest novel, The Full Catastrophe, has the blend of poignancy and comedy so evident in her previous novel Once More with Feeling. -
FictionA gift for healing and questions around humanity blend through magic realism
A Kid Called Chatter, Calgary author Chris Kelly’s latest novel, deals with profound themes in a beautifully fantastical story. The short chapters, spare prose, and faultless dialogue propel the reader into a world where it seems possible for dying animals to search out solace from a human. -
FictionNovel shaped according to ‘sporadic nature’ of memories is a tale of resilience
Lisa Bird-Wilson’s short fiction collection, Just Pretending, won four Saskatchewan Book Awards. Bird-Wilson, a Saskatchewan Métis and nêhiyaw writer, explains how her new novel, Probably Ruby, came about. -
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.
