Interviews

by Kaitlin Ruether

Meg Braem is a Canadian playwright hailing from the West Coast who now calls Alberta her home. A champion of her characters and a firm believer in the importance of fore-fronting women’s voices, Meg has been awarded the Gwen Pharis Ringwood Award for Drama and her play Blood: A Scientific Romance was shortlisted for the Governor General’s Literary Award for Drama in Canada. She is also a badass beekeeper, parent, and the current Lee Playwright in Residence at the University of Alberta. Continue Reading →

by Ambika Thompson

Vivek Shraya is a poet, short story weaver, singer songwriter, filmmaker and was our February Guest Writer. She let us publish her poem Saraswati from her forthcoming collection even this page is white, and she was also nice enough to let us interview her. Continue Reading →

by Jane Flett * intro: Ambika Thompson

December’s guest writer was La JohnJoseph and we were lucky enough to publish a chapter from their novel Everything Must Go, which came out in 2014 with ITNA Press. Continue Reading →

by Jane Flett

Our featured writer this month is Ryan Van Winkle, an old friend and personal poetry hero of mine. Ryan spends most of his time touring the world reading poems to people, hosting events and podcasts, and putting on award-winning festival shows, but he took some time out of his schedule to talk to us about the moon… Continue Reading →

by Jane Flett

We asked Kirsty Logan to be our first featured writer, because she’s a total badass Scottish folklore obsessed writer with a semicolon tattooed on her toe, and all of that is pretty fabulous with us. Continue Reading →