If you’re an Indigenous writer with an unpublished manuscript written for young readers, this is a great opportunity for your work to be brought into the world. The winner will be offered a publishing contract with Second Story Press.
Now, less than a year after it was founded, FYSC has run two free creative writing workshops and two writing competitions that drew in over 200 hundred participants in both elementary and high school.
Although flowers haven’t started popping through the snowy earth yet, Canada’s spring titles are already on their way! Our editorial director and poetry editor, Jo and Prathna, have listed the titles that have them most excited for the winter thaw. Rest assured this list has our diverse mix of the experimental, surreal, and humorous.
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Running a book club during a pandemic requires a balance between entertainment and insightful discussion. To achieve the perfect balance, here are some tips to keep in mind.
The premises combines tongue-in-cheek pokes at typical tropes found in Canadian literature like harsh weather, old men, and childhood homes with the current players like Drake, web developers, and the Maple Syrup Heist.
As a great fan of lit-erotica, I decided to do us all a favour and make the listicle no one asked for: here I present you with six different books to match your newly purchased Indigo vibrator.
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In the spirit of distance learning, POEMLINK reflects on the lessons of separation and dis/attachment that may permit us to explore the poetics of collaborative insight. These poems challenge and revisit what we think we know—and how we know it. Though often difficult, clandestine knowledge can be vital for our own self- and community retrievals.
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Riding out the unknown is terrifying, and there is still so much left up in the air as 2020 keeps going. Here are some books to accompany you on your terrifying journey through limbo and to help you lean into the rest of this year.
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“Nothing may seem less propitious for thinking about modernist avant-garde poetry than cuteness.” (Sianne Ngai, Our Aesthetic Categories). Ngai’s comment derives from the lingering inheritance that modernist, avant-garde, or experimental work must be difficult—and therefore serious and anything but cute.
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