for George Elliott Clarke I don’t like to be thought of as a “black writer,” largely because I refuse to…
Author: Ashley Van Elswyk
A talk given on the occasion of the unveiling of a plaque by the Writers’ Chapel Trust at St. James…
In chapter three of Barbara Kingsolver’s 1988 novel The Bean Trees, Taylor Greer and Turtle, the toddler who was deposited…
A naked man is found dead in the woods of northern Alberta. He turns out to be Ben Wylie, the…
JF: To start, I was wondering if you could speak a bit to your process. Your poems contain so many…
From CNQ 94 (Winter 2016)
I If the inhabitants of a certain Victorian townhouse in Lampeter, west Wales, ever strip the wallpaper in one of…
I was eighteen when I read L’Étranger for the first time. I read it in French in a freshman class…
I grew up in a suburb of Toronto, during the 1980s, which is to say, Before Internet. What it meant…
They’ve just announced the longlist for the 2015 Man Booker Prize and no Canadian authors were included. This is only…