Michael Winter Speaks at Traill College: Just Write it Down
Last Tuesday night began as any evening involving Lewis MacLeod does, with pizazz and humour. The writer of the week at the English Department’s Writers Reading was Michael Winter and …
Writers Reading Series
Letters to the Editor: Volume 49 Issue 7
Jackson Park needs to be protected from Parkway Re: “Parkway good for the city” (letters, issue 4, September 30) Dear Arthur, Your letter-writer Joan Reeves [Letters, Issue 34] claims to …
Jane Bow presents Cally’s Way at Writer’s Reading Series
Whoever it was that called this October cold, miserable, and crappy…was right. However there was one day two weeks ago when the temperature broke 24 degrees. At first I thought …
Comment: Why don’t students go to the Writers Readings?
Photo by Jenny Fisher Last Wednesday at Scott House, Giller-shortlisted Trent Alumnist Craig Davidson (Rust And Bone, Cataract City) gave a candid and entertaining reading and Q&A session as part …
Internationally acclaimed author Jane Urquhart helps launch 2014 Writer’s Readings Series
On Wednesday, October 1, Order of Canada recipient and award winning Canadian author Jane Urquhart (from Little Long Lac in Northern Ontario) stopped by Traill for readings and a Q&A …
Ursula Pflug on hand for Peterborough launch of anthology
On Friday, Sept. 12 The Theatre On King Street hosted a full house for the launch party of They Have To Take You In, a new anthology of short fiction …
Suburban Bitchiness as Inspiration: Interview with Alexandra Oliver
I’m guessing that the overlap of artists who have been featured on both CBC Radio One and Lollapalooza is relatively small. Alexandra Oliver is one who finds herself in this …
“What you read manages you”: Jessica Grant
Jessica Grant has more awards than you. Her novel Come, Thou Tortoise won the Amazon.ca First Novel Award, the Winterset Award, the Ontatio Library Association Evergreen Award, and the Globe …
Dialogue is your friend: a conversation with Kathleen Winter
With her 2010 novel Annabel Kathleen Winter accomplished a feat few writers ever do—the novel was shortlisted for all three of Canada’s major literary awards (The Scotiabank Giller Prize, Rogers …
Malarky: A Hilarious Meditation on Grief
Irish-Canadian author Anakana Schofield read from her recently published book Malarky last Thursday. Though she has been recognized by American book giant Barnes and Noble as one of the “Great New …