Why I Made Up the Role Model of My Dreams
In 2009, I left my children with their father and flew to Mexico City to hunt down the last living Surrealist
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The Hawaiian Queen Who Taught Indigenous Writers to Resist
By connecting the fight for justice across generations, Indigenous writing has found its moment
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Madeleine L’Engle Taught Me the Universe Has Meaning
The Wrinkle in Time author shaped my ideas on nearly everything, from family to illness
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How One Writer Is Using Thrillers to Explore Misogyny
Elisabeth de Mariaffi’s first novel taught women how to get away. Her new novel teaches them how to fight back
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How to Make a Hit Song in 2018
Why artists are rethinking old formulas for chart-topping music
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CanLit Has a Sexual-Harassment Problem
Now, more than ever, we must create an environment in which young writers feel they can come forward
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Why I Pulled My Winning Story From a Literary Magazine
The new momentum is about small acts of resistance that can lead to large-scale shifts in attitude
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Ursula Le Guin Taught Me That Everything I Knew about Sci-Fi Was Wrong
In a male-dominated genre, her novels stood out as a new way to write speculative fiction
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Sheila Barry Was the Superhero of Canadian Children’s Literature
As publisher of Groundwood Books, she was the type of editor who would encourage you to jump—and then be your net
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How Margaret Atwood Learned to Type
At sixteen, the author of The Handmaid’s Tale sat down with her parents’ portable Remington for the first time
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