The Chat Posts
The Chat with Téa Mutonji
Vivek Shraya launched her imprint VS. Books with Arsenal Pulp to highlight bold work by new and emerging Indigenous or Black writers, or writers of colour. …
The Chat with Lucas Crawford
This week, we’re in conversation with Lucas Crawford, author of The High Line Scavenger Hunt (University of Calgary Press), an innovative and playful …
The Chat with Shannon Webb-Campbell
Today on The Chat, we’re in conversation with poet Shannon Webb-Campbell. Webb-Campbell recently released her latest collection, I am a Body of Land …
The Chat with Ian Williams
Reproduction, the debut novel by Ian Williams, is a stunner. By any measure. Structurally daring, emotionally profound, intellectually engaged, playful …
The Chat with Shauntay Grant and Eva Campbell
This week we’re in conversation with the creators of Africville, a picture book nominated last year for the Governor General's Award for Literature …
The Chat with Nilofar Shidmehr
Nilofar Shidmehr’s short fiction collection, Divided Loyalties (Astoria/House of Anansi) is a rich and compelling collection of stories focusing on …
The Chat with Kathy Page
The tender story of a decades-long marriage, Dear Evelyn explores how time transforms our most intimate relationships.
The Chat with Harold R. Johnson
In our first conversation of 2019, we chat with acclaimed writer Harold Johnson, author of the genre-bending memoir Clifford: A Memoir, A Fiction, A Fantasy, …
The Chat with Alex Leslie
We All Need to Eat is a spectacular collection, full of powerful stories that centre around Soma, a queer woman on the West Coast.
The Chat with Governor General's Award Winner Jillian Tamaki
Jillian Tamaki is the winner of this year’s English-language Governor General’s Award for Literature for Young People (Illustration) for her gorgeous …