Trevor Corkum

Canada, Pereira

Atlantic Correspondent at The Walrus Magazine

HERE WITH YOU - Knopf Canada, coming soon | columnist @49thShelf | Atlantic correspondent @thewalrus | rep: Dean Cooke @CookeMcDermid | he/him

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Articles

Gallery: Dare to Bird

1 month ago | 49thshelf.com | Kerry Clare |Vanessa Westermann |Trevor Corkum

The magical imagery of birds is unparalleled in Dare to Bird, and Melissa Hafting helps the reader to understand why—as she believes—birds have the power to both save and heal us amid many of life’s challenges. ***** Excerpted from Dare to Bird: Exploring the Joy and Healing Power of Birds, by Melissa Hafting. Copyright © 2025. Published by RMB: Rocky Mountain Books. Reproduced by arrangement with the publisher. All rights reserved.
Another Premier, Another Power Grab

1 month ago | thewalrus.ca | Trevor Corkum

On March 5, hundreds of Nova Scotians gathered in front of Province House, the provincial legislature, in Halifax. Many held handmade signs, including one featuring Premier Tim Houston transformed into a Donald Trump doppelganger, and slogans like “Nobody voted for Tim Trump,” “Please dump the Trump playbook,” and “We want democracy.
Notes from a Children's Librarian: Books on Bikes! · Blog Post · 49th Shelf

1 month ago | 49thshelf.com | Trevor Corkum |Gabrielle Drolet |Robert Wiersema |Tahmina Afshar

Our Children's Librarian columnist, Julie Booker, brings us a new view from the stacks every month. **** If You Give a Girl a Bike, by Hayley Diep, illustrated by Canadian Braden Hallett, is reminiscent of Laura Numeroff’s classic If You Give a Mouse a Cookie. It follows a daring female protagonist riding her bike, shredding down hills and mountains. When she falls, she doesn’t stay down for long. A skateboarder comes along and off she goes on four wheels, tackling tricks.
Graphic Novels, Disability, Memoir, and Montreal

1 month ago | 49thshelf.com | Trevor Corkum |Julie Booker |Tahmina Afshar |Robert Wiersema

Like most authors, I’ve spent most of my life dreaming about my first book. It was going to be a novel; I was going to write it in my master’s program; it would be published by the time I was 25. Now, finally, my first book is out—and it’s far from the one I intended to write. At 23, as I was working on that novel I’d always planned, I developed a chronic and disabling nerve condition that spread pain throughout my upper body.
Built for Joy · Blog Post · 49th Shelf

1 month ago | 49thshelf.com | Genevieve Graham |Heidi Wicks |Trevor Corkum |Elinor Florence

An excerpt from new memoir Fallosophy: My Trip through Life with MS (Douglas & McIntyre). Fallosophy: My Trip through Life with MS is one of our marvellous giveaways running through May 2025. Head to our giveaways page for your chance to win, and to check out everything up for offer right now. *****How many times have I asked myself “how will I?” and answered “I just will”? Being diagnosed with MS is a big fucking deal, and from time to time I deserve to pay tribute to that.
People in Proximity

1 month ago | 49thshelf.com | Jim McEwen |Miriam Toews |Matthew Hollett |Trevor Corkum

Here, my new book of interconnected short stories, explores community: how we relate to one another, how the troubled layers of our past affects our present lives, the heartaches that define and defy us. It’s “an ode to place, love, and collective care,” according to Maggie Burton’s kind words. As a Newfoundlander and Labradorian, I am both fiercely protective and equally critical of my home. And so, many of the selections on this list are written by Newfoundland and Labrador authors.
Books that Your Mother will Love

1 month ago | 49thshelf.com | Trevor Corkum |Kate Braid |Tim Welsh |Kerry Clare

Finding Flora is up for giveaway until the end of May! Head to our giveaways page for your chance to win, and to check out all the other books up for grabs. *****Finding Flora is a rollicking historical novel set in turn-of-the-century Alberta about a young woman on the run from her abusive husband who uses a legal loophole to claim a homestead in the Wild West—perfect for fans of Outlawed and The Giver of Stars.
Publisher Spotlight: Broadview Press

1 month ago | 49thshelf.com | Trevor Corkum |Julie Booker |Gabrielle Drolet |Robert Wiersema

This month, we’re featuring Broadview Press, an independent publisher known for its expertly edited classics and commitment to accessible, thoughtful scholarship—especially in the humanities, with a specifically Canadian emphasis. Tell me the story of your publisher and when you arrived on the scene. Broadview Press was founded by Don LePan in 1985.
The History I Trust the Most

1 month ago | 49thshelf.com | Trevor Corkum |Elinor Florence |Tim Welsh |Kerry Clare

The Erotics of Cutting Grass is one of our great giveaways running until the end of May. Check out our giveaways page for your chance to win and to take a look at everything else up for offer. *****What these books (listed in no particular order) have in common for me is that they all tell, with wonderful skill and insight, heartfelt stories of coping with difficult times. I love oral history—the view of History from so-called “ordinary” people’s perspective, not just the “famous” people.
Back to the Land

2 months ago | 49thshelf.com | Natalie Lim |Anna Veprinska |Trevor Corkum

When I was invited to put together a list of Canadian books for 49th Shelf, I had trouble deciding what the theme of my list should be. I knew I wanted it to be related in some way to my debut novel, Lake Burntshore, set at a fictional Jewish summer camp in the Muskoka region of Ontario, but beyond that I couldn’t decide. Jewish Canadian fiction? Novels about summer camp? Novels about Israel/Palestine? Books on the settler colonial encounter?