Forgetting to Remember
In her sweeping, multi-generational debut novel, Jasmine Sealy weaves together broken family ties
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Analyze This: The Authors of the 2023 Amazon Canada Youth Short Story Award
Fiction can be an escape, but as the nominees for this year’s Amazon Canada Youth Short Story category found out, it can also present an opportunity to process larger truths
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Dig Deep: The Authors of the 2023 Amazon Canada First Novel Award Shortlist
This year’s crop of nominees for the Amazon Canada First Novel Award boldly went where they hadn’t before—narratively speaking
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The Fountain of Youth
If uninhibited creativity is a young person’s game, the nominees for this year’s Amazon Canada Youth Short Story category prize have more than a few nuggets of wisdom for their literary peers.
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Love and Grief
Pik-Shuen Fung, winner of this year’s Amazon Canada First Novel Award, discusses the unbearable lightness of grief.
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Reality Bites
Nominees of this year’s Amazon Canada First Novel Award discuss the reality-illuminating—and reality-obscuring—properties of fiction
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Hooked-up Culture
Edged out of the city by ever-inflating housing prices—and freed up by flexible working parameters, courtesy of COVID-19—Canadian millennials might finally have a shot at financial stability. If the Wi-Fi’s good, that is.
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Who Will Inherit the Earth?
A lesser-discussed casualty of the climate crisis are children’s rights—particularly for those who are already marginalized.
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The Internet Works—and It’s No Accident
The pandemic has revealed the incredible value–and non-negotiable costs–of keeping Canadians connected. Both are expected to increase in the future.
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