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Jan 22, 2025 | 
open-book.ca | Shazia Hafiz Ramji |Vikki VanSickle |Suzanne Bowness |Dundurn Press
News and Interviews Author and freelance expert Suzanne Bowness created her first writing business over 20 years ago, and has worked independently since then. As a career path, professional writing is eminently rewarding and exciting, but it's hard to see a pathway to success for some freelancers who are new to the game, or who simply don't have the knowhow of a seasoned pro.
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Oct 23, 2024 | 
gallerieswest.ca | Shazia Hafiz Ramji
Art Toronto returns for its 25th edition this autumn. Since 2000, the international art fair has been making connections between audiences and regional, national and international art galleries.
Art Toronto will take place at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre North Building in Toronto, Ont. from Oct. 24 until Oct. 27.
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Oct 22, 2024 | 
chireviewofbooks.com | Shazia Hafiz Ramji
Dionne Brand has never been afraid of reckoning with narrative—the demands of certain scripts on certain lives—the wreck from which one must salvage a self. Salvage: Readings from the Wreck marks Brand’s first return to nonfiction since A Map to the Door of No Return, in which she famously and daringly writes, “One enters a room and history follows; one enters a room and history precedes.
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Jul 26, 2024 | 
gallerieswest.ca | Shazia Hafiz Ramji
PneumoMachinic at the New Media Gallery in New Westminster, BC presents three works of sound art from international artists working at the intersection of art and technology. On view until Aug. 18, the “breath machines” explore the necessity and hauntings of air across various forms, currents and time periods.
Turkish artist Ali Miharbi’s Whispering 1 isolates the primal sounds that emanate from the human vocal tract.
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Jul 17, 2024 | 
gallerieswest.ca | Shazia Hafiz Ramji
Power Plant exhibition is first Canadian survey of Toronto artist's work Wishbones. Feathers. Rope. Chain. Iron. Fragments. Trowel. Self-portraits. June Clark’s Witness places all these objects and their material histories in conversation.
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May 27, 2024 | 
chireviewofbooks.com | Shazia Hafiz Ramji
One day, a sage was being arrogant and proclaimed his devotion to the Lord Vishnu as his greatest devotee. Vishnu, as told by the acclaimed novelist Hari Kunzru, says, “Okay, I’m not sure that’s true.” Then stuff happens to the sage: he falls in love, gets married, sets up a household and lives an entire new life until his family and home are washed away in a flood.
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May 17, 2024 | 
open-book.ca | Shazia Hafiz Ramji |Vikki VanSickle |Naseem Hrab |Kelly Collier
News and Interviews Collaborating on a series of picture books or graphic novels is quite the task, but some of the finest KidLit out there comes from these fruitful partnerships between talented authors and illustrators. This is certainly true with Naseem Hrab and Kelly Collier, the author and illustrator of Otis and Peanut Forever and Ever (Owlkids Books), a new junior graphic novel that follows the friendship between a long-haired guinea pig and a naked mole rat and all of their hijinks.
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Mar 7, 2024 | 
open-book.ca | Shazia Hafiz Ramji |Vikki VanSickle |Catherine Leroux |Susan Ouriou
News and Interviews After four days of passionate debate and discussion, Canada Reads 2024 came to a dramatic conclusion, with The Future by Catherine Leroux (translated by Susan Ouriou) taking the glory. Championed by acclaimed author Heather O'Neill (whose novel Lullabies for Little Criminals was the winning title in 2007), The Future told the story of one woman’s search for her missing granddaughters in a post-industrial landscape reeling from ecological collapse.
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Jan 30, 2024 | 
open-book.ca | Shazia Hafiz Ramji |Vikki VanSickle |Christina Cooke
News and Interviews Through the complicated happenings of our lives, people are often faced with challenges that make them consider how far they are willing to go for family, and to preserve a sense of home. In Christina Cooke's new novel, Broughtupsy (House of Anansi Press), themes of family, home, and belonging abound. She tells the story of Akúa, who returns to Jamaica after the death of her younger brother, and tries to reconnect with her estranged sister, Tamika.
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Nov 8, 2023 | 
open-book.ca | Shazia Hafiz Ramji |Vikki VanSickle
News and Interviews Last night at a gala event in Toronto, Sarah Bernstein, a Montreal-born writer now based in Scotland, was named the winner of the 30th annual Scotiabank Giller Prize for her novel, Study for Obedience (Knopf Canada). She was awarded $100,000, courtesy of Scotiabank, as part of the honour. The Giller is considered Canada's highest literary honour for fiction writers, and is open to both novels and short story collections.
