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Writing While Worried
Fanny Britt
‘Just as it can spur me on, worry is adept at stifling and silencing.’
The Martians Claim Canada
Margaret Atwood
‘Mushrooms have long memories. Some of them are thousands of years old. However, they are not always very talkative.’
The Blue Clerk
Dionne Brand
‘Now you are sounding like me, the clerk says. I am you, the author says.’
What is it that hurts?
France Daigle
‘Our visibility and our affirmation as a people is established through our language.’
The Canada Pictures
Douglas Coupland
‘In the year leading up to this I started collecting objects that, in some way, evoked a sense of Canadianness in me.’
Écrire Avec Facultés Affaiblies
Fanny Britt
Comme il a grandi, j’ai pensé, puis j’ai passé la débarbouillette sous l’eau tiède du lavabo de la salle de bain.
Clown School
Nuar Alsadir
Political resistance, poetry, self-revelation all spring from that provocative, impish drive to burst free from external constraints.
After Ann Lauterbach
Emily Critchley
‘The piano eyes me / from its corner – / colluding with the past’
M*rphed
Robert Coover
‘I am not now who or what I was when I wrote this. I change as you read. I am changing now.’ New fiction from Robert Coover.
Assuming the Habits of the Day and Night
Anthony (Vahni) Capildeo
‘my every day is a being in of being / a mixity of worlds’
The Scream
Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida
‘That supremacist is the idea, in those brothers and sisters of mine, of shyness (which no one understands) being an encumbrance that they should purge as they try to find in their interaction with the world a perfect mixture of disdain, meekness and expansiveness.’