Reading a play is a kitchen party. There’s a degree of anarchy involved where multiple voices rise and fall over the bedlam of parallel arching narratives. Be careful what you say here, anyone could be listening
by : Megan Gale Coles
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Darren Greer’s name will be familiar to many. His first novel, Tyler’s Cape, earned critical acclaim, while Still Life with June won the ReLit Award in 2004. His latest, Just Beneath My Skin is no exception
Author Mark Anthony Jarman’s whole life has been steeped in words. From his earliest days, he clearly remembers living in a house filled with books, newspapers and magazines. But as he got a little older, comics became Jarman’s “gateway drug”
As Easter weekend approaches, Jon Tattrie shares the lesser known meanings of many words popular this time of year
The launch of your first book may be the most terrifying step you ever take. Poet Shannon Webb-Campbell shares her story
A book purchased on camper vacation started PEI’s David Atkinson on the road to a career in writing
We bury the old gods in our language, using their tombstones to mark the cycle of the years
A translation of La patate cadeau ou la « vraie » histoire de la poutine râpée, this young readers’ book tells the story of two seemingly opposed cultures coming together to help one another survive
Bobbi French on living life on one’s own terms
As a teen, I spent a lot of time playing in photobooths. Each trip to the mall was commemorated with a slightly sticky, chemical-smelling strip of black and white images. Unlike me, Meags Fitzgerald transformed her teenage crush on photobooths into a calling
The growth of online communications avenues not only puts pressure on authors to be web savvy, it also requires dedicated fans to do the same. Granted, there are still some holdouts but more and more readers are able to connect with Author 2.0
This collection introduces readers to gritty, hard luck characters trying to live their lives amid ambition and disappointment, dangerous spaces and people, drugs and death. But instead of scaring you away that should, most certainly, pull you in
