Falling Sideways Through One-Way Gates: Elena Johnson Interviews Natalie Rice

 •  October 20

NATALIE RICE is the author of Nightjar (Gaspereau Press, 2025) and Scorch (Gaspereau Press,2023). Her poems have appeared in journals such as...

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A Choreography of Meanings: Elena Johnson Interviews Isabella Wang

 •  March 17

ISABELLA WANG is the author of the chapbook, On Forgetting a Language, and her full-lengthdebut, Pebble Swing, shortlisted for the Dorothy...

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In the Dream World of Poems: Elena Johnson Interviews Kareem Tayyar

 •  February 23

KAREEM TAYYAR’s most recent book, Keats in San Francisco & Other Poems, was published byLily Poetry Review Books in 2022, and his work has appeared...

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Peacocks of Instagram: An Interview With Deepa Rajagopalan

 •  August 18

DEEPA RAJAGOPALAN won the 2021 PEN Canada New Voices Award. Her work has appeared inliterary magazines such as Room, The Malahat...

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On Display in my Mind: Rob Taylor interviews Nick Thran

 •  July 18

A John Ashbery Remembrance Day A call came into the shop from someone looking for your Girls on the Run. We didn’t have the book. Could...

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Appreciating Each Moment More Deeply: Elena Johnson Interviews Bren Simmers

 •  April 20

Every Other Phone Call You Hang Up by Bren Simmers Your father is dying, you say, he looks so thin. Before moving in with his girlfriend, he...

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The Wild Mandrake: An Interview With Jason Jobin

 •  October 11

JASON JOBIN completed an MFA in writing at the University of Victoria. His nonfiction has been longlisted for the CBC Nonfiction Prize, been...

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Hope, History, and the Land: An Interview With Tosh Sherkat

 •  May 26

Tosh Sherkat is a writer attending the University of Victoria. He was raised in Nelson, BC (Sinixt and Ktunaxa territory). His writing has appeared...

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What We Both Know: Hannah Macready Interviews Fawn Parker

 •  May 4

In front of me are hundreds of pages of work. Already I feel it leaving me. He will obliterate what is there, replace it, deny I ever wrote a...

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Suspension, Some Dread, A Lifeline: Rob Taylor Interviews Neil Surkan

 •  March 15

Reservoir – Neil Surkan Carp lurk through suburbs when runoff jumps the dam, sucksmanhole covers up like corks, slopswallpaper with septic...

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