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The Nail That Sticks Out
Tena Laing talks to Suzanne Elki Yoko Hartmann about her memoir: The Nail That Sticks Out: Reflections on the Postwar Japanese Canadian Community (Dundurn Press, 2024). Tena Laing (TL): Congratulations on your unique memoir, The Nail That Sticks Out: Reflections on the Postwar Japanese Canadian Community! Japanese and Japanese-Canadian culture have always interested me, and I even lived in Tokyo…
Welcome to the Neighborhood
Paul Dhillon talks to Clea Young about her story collection: Welcome to the Neighborhood (House of Anansi Press (2025). [Paul Dhillon]:Congratulations on the new collection, Welcome to the Neighborhood. After reading the collection I am struck by the irony of it. We often assume a neighbourhood should be friendly, filled with familial relations, yet this story plays as much on what it means to…
Teeth
Sabyasachi Nag talks to Dallas Hunt about his newest poetry collection: Teeth (Nightwood Editions, 2024). Sabyasachi Nag (SN) Congratulations on “Teeth”? Can you tell us a bit more about how the collection came into being? Did you know the shape and structure of the collection at some point before or after all the pieces were crafted? Or did you craft your poems to a plan? Dallas Hunt (DH):…
Drinking the Ocean
Eleanor Fuller talks to Saad Omar Khan about his debut novel Drinking The Ocean, Wolsak & Wynn (2025). Eleanor Fuller (EF): Congratulations, Saad Omar Khan, on your wonderful debut, Drinking The Ocean. Given how striking it is, I wonder if you could begin by commenting on your title. Saad Omar Khan (SOK): The title Drinking the Ocean is derived from a poem quoted on page 95 written by the…
Safekeeping
Shelly Kawaja talks to award-winning author and author care specialist, Chelene Knight about her new book, Safekeeping, A Writers Guided Journal for Launching a Book with Love. (Anansi Press, 2025) Shelly Kawaja (SK): What inspired you to write Safekeeping? Chelene Knight (CK): I wrote Safekeeping because there are so many pivotal parts of publishing we just don’t talk about enough. Things like…
Imagine That
Margaret Marcum on the practical art of implementing imagery in poetry “Faces radiant with panic” is how Tracy K. Smith ends her poem “The Weather in Space” (3). This line summons the rather vibrant image of Edvard Munch’s famous painting of “The Scream.” This example illustrates how crucial imagery is for crafting good poetry. Unfortunately, how imagery is fashioned in the poetic moment,…
My Thievery of The People
Paul Dhillon talks to Montreal novelist, poet and activist Leila Marshy about her latest story collection. Paul Dhillon (PD): Congratulations on the new collection, My Thievery of The People, opens with the story, “Blink Twice, showcases two characters struggling to connect. In my reading, the piece sets the tone for the whole collection, especially with the story’s last sentence, and the…
Finding Home Through Translation
Archana Sridhar reviews a New Translation of Temple Lamp: Ghalib’s Sojourn in the Sacred City of Banaras Driving through Toronto the other night, flipping through radio stations, I happened upon the scratchy sounds of an old qawwali recording. The call and response of the Muslim devotional song reminded me of my parents in the kitchen, singing along to this same music on cassette tapes brought…
Object Lessons
Amy L Cornell about the power and importance of objects in our writing. Objects have lives. They are witness to things~Ira Glass, This American Life In college, I shared a living space with a witty engineering student named Luanne. One chilly day Luanne lent me a bright red pullover sweater with a black stripe across the top. It was two sizes too big, and I loved it. I kept it. Returned it.…
Talking to Strangers
Sabyasachi Nag talks to Vancouver poet and academic Rhea Tregebov about her latest poetry collection. Sabyasachi Nag (SN) Congratulations on “Talking to Strangers”? Actual conversations with strangers (ten chats, over ten years) form the centrepiece of this title. Can you tell us a bit more about how it came into being? And also, a bit about the praxis – how you remembered the conversations and…
Underwater
Candice Louisa Daquin reviews Underwater by Jill Michelle (Riot In Your Throat Press) In rarefied cases, there is a collaborative relationship between poet and publisher, producing a symbiotic creation that is both original to the poet and of the quality one imagines from the publisher. Finding the right fit and quality of writer is a publisher’s most challenging job. The titles by Riot in Your…
The Wisdom Project
The Artisanal Writer would like to thank @ontarioartscouncil and the Government of Ontario for their funding support of The Wisdom Project, a fully funded memoir writing workshop for Ontario seniors. This OAC funding allows us to continue promoting new Canadian writers awaiting readers across Ontario, and the country! Apply now using the submissions portal here!
When My Ghost Sings
Tena Laing talks to Tara Sidhoo Fraser about her memoir: When My Ghost Sings published by Arsenal Pulp Press (2024). Tena Laing (TL): Congratulations on your beautiful memoir, When My Ghost Sings: A Memoir of Stroke, Recovery & Transformation. I was delighted and surprised by how poetic, literary, lyrical, evocative, and mysterious this story was. Tantalizing details were gradually revealed, and…
Nostalgic for a Place Never Seen
Sabyasachi Nag talks to London, Ontario writer, essayist and poet, Bhaswati Ghosh about her debut poetry collection Nostalgic For a Place Never Seen (Copper Coin Press, 2024) Sabyasachi Nag (SN): Congratulations on your first poetry title? How did you arrive at the collection, did you conceive of it first and went about constructing the poems or did the poems coalesce at some point into the…
The Rise and Fall of Magic Wolf
Paul Dhillon talks to Vancouver novelist and journalist Timothy Taylor about his new novel, The Rise and Fall of Magic Wolf (Dundurn Press, 2024) Paul Dhillon: Congratulations on your new novel, The Rise and Fall of Magic Wolf. This book is a Künstlerroman, and follows the rise of Teo as a skilled chef. You have spent twenty-plus years writing about the art and food business, and particularly to…
Look Who’s Morphing
Shelly Kawaja talks to St. John’s, Ktaqmkuk (“Newfoundland”) writer and editor Tom Cho about his debut story collection Look Who’s Morphing (Arsenal Pulp Press, 2024) Shelly Kawaja (SK): “Someone is stalking Whitney Houston, and I have been hired to be her bodyguard.” That is the opening line for “The Bodyguard,” in your debut short story collection Look Who’s Morphing. This book is flush with…
Against Endings
Matthew Gordon on literary and genre fiction tendencies to break down stories into neat segments. “Happy New Year!” It’s 12:00AM on January 1 of whichever year you’re reading this. You’re surrounded by friends, the clink of champagne flutes still ringing in your ears, the chatter on the TV just loud enough to annoy you. You slump back into your chair, your arm brushing against the mangled tiara…