Inspired by a true story, playwright Marie Beath Badian's The Making of St. Jerome (Playwrights Canada Press) goes deep into the aftermath of a teenager's untimely death and the media's role on such tragedies. This is a story of injustice, survivor's guilt, and a brother ...

With four poetry collection under her belt, Janet Rogers gives us a fifth, Totem Poles and Railroads (ARP Books), a well-versed reflection on the relationship between Indigenous nations and corporate Canada. Janet offers intimate, thought-provoking poems we can really ge ...

Leesa Dean’s Waiting for the Cyclone (Brindle & Glass) takes you on a ride through thirteen stories featuring strong female leads who deviate from the status quo. One of the collection’s edgier stories is “Tiebreaker” in which we find Valery, a fearless hitchhike ...

The room was free. It was my first book launch for my first book, so free was important. The room smelled like pee and the floors were sticky. The taps in the bathroom didn’t respond to a wave; they were the manual kind that spread E. coli, Ebola, plague. You get what you ...

Lots this week, including another leg of the Ask & Answer tour and a book launch for a collection of Indigenous spec fiction (!).

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We collectively felt the weight of winter lift off us this week, as the sun shone longer and brighter and people pumped their fists yelling “we made it over the hump!” Okay that last part probably didn’t happen, but that's what it felt like. This week also brought the ...