Interview

Katherena Vermette is a Métis writer from Winnipeg, Manitoba. Her collection of poetry, North End Love Songs, won the 2013 Governor General’s Award for Poetry, and her debut novel The Break has won numerous awards and was a Canada Reads 2017 finalist. Most recently,...

Kelly Morse talks about her resolution to have thirty submssions out at once so she couldn't obsess about one or two journals and writing about Vietnam while mindful of Western stereotypes and orientalism. Kelly Morse is primarily a poet with a poet’s facility...

Scaachi Koul has risen to prominence over the last few years as perhaps the most recognizable young voice in Canadian media. Currently a culture writer at Buzzfeed, Koul has gained a huge following on Twitter for her unique blend of self-deprecating humour and...

“What if we all stopped the cycle of saying ‘this is who your audience is’?” Phoebe Wang is a first generation Canadian writer whose work has appeared in Arc Poetry, Canadian Literature, The Globe and Mail, Grain, Malahat Review, Maisonneuve Magazine, Ricepaper...

You don’t need an MFA to be taken seriously as a writer. Most of the time, when there’s a writer that you like, you don't know if they have an MFA or not. Sierra Skye Gemma is the recipient of a National Magazine Award for Best New Magazine Writer and a National...

I was tagged in a thread on Facebook about the difficulty in naming black Canadian women who had published a novel before the age of forty. I thought about this and began questioning the reason why it was so difficult to come up with even one name. Shortly after...

Ricepaper Magazine has been publishing literature and art by Asian Canadians since 1994. Though they transitioned to digital only in 2016, Ricepaper is currently running a Kickstarter campaign for a print anthology, Currents. We spoke to Ricepaper’s fiction editor...

In the following interview, Rooney discusses some of the inspirations for her work, the need for complexity in conversations about trauma, and how fiction can set us free. Upon reading Pedal and throughout our thread by thread interview, I began to feel closer to...

Rachel Thompson interviews Zehra Naqvi, winner of Room's 2016 poetry contest. Zehra Naqvi is the winner of Room's 2016 poetry contest. She is a Karachi-born writer and editor residing on unceded Coast Salish Territories (Vancouver). She recently completed...