Heather Birrell’s debut novel finds a high school English teacher going into labour during a lockdown
Birrell employs a variation on Faulkner's structure in As I Lay Dying.
Canadian Chanel Sutherland wins the 2025 Commonwealth Short Story Prize
Sutherland says the structure of the story was "a risk" that arose out of her belief that "every enslaved person deserves to have their story told with dignity."
Elbows Up! anthology from M&S aims to update an earlier volume of patriotic and nationalistic essays
Certainly Canadian cultural nationalism does not look the same today as it did in 1968.
McClelland & Stewart launches Kanata Classics as an act of reconciliation to reclaim and expand the literary classics space
"It became really clear that Canadian publishers generally are not putting enough effort into the classics space."
Choice cuts: In The Butcher’s Daughter, Canadian writers David Demchuk and Corrine Leigh Clarke reimagine one of Broadway’s nastiest bakers
The Butcher's Daughter may best be enjoyed by those unfamiliar with The String of Pearls or the musical Sweeney Todd.
“We is all we have”: Science, nature, and politics intertwine in Derek Webster’s National Animal
The poems in National Animal do not cleave to unidirectional pieties about nature or the resilience of humankind.
Pedagogy as practice: A new anthology aims to define best practices for teaching creative writing in universities
Numerous chapters address interdisciplinary practice and the value of working not just across genres but across academic fields of interest.
31 Days of Stories 2025, Day 31: “The Underside of a Wing” by Paola Ferrante
Ferrante's tale shows the ongoing potential for the short form to continue to evolve outside a strictly mimetic mode.
31 Days of Stories 2025, Day 30: “lived experience” by Billy-Ray Belcourt
Belcourt's tactic in "lived experience" is to trouble this unquestioned notion of progress and urban gentrification.
31 Days of Stories 2025, Day 28: “Started Early, Took My Dog” by Caroline Adderson
Throughout the story, relationships between and among the characters are drawn in different shades.