Publishing News & Views

By Frances Grace Fyfe When I went to print out these interview questions at Zoubris photocopy in the Mile End, one of the owners recognized Leila Marshy’s name and warned me “she’s trouble.” I brought the questions with me to Caffe della Pace, on the corner of Van Horne and […]

By Brooke Lee Last month, local writer Brooke Lee sat down with Christopher DiRaddo–founder and host of the Violet Hour Book Club–to discuss his debut literary festival Lire Queer.  When did the idea for Lire Queer first come to you? It began with an invitation from fiction writer Nairne Holtz, […]

By Margot Berner I am not a spring-enjoyer.  I love summer for the festivals, autumn for the When Harry Met Sally sweaters, and winter for the complaining about winter. Spring in Montreal is all about the revealing of dog poop in ice-melt gutter-rivers and slipping on secret ice hidden under […]

One year later, I understand memory less as a repository than as a living process. It does not preserve experience so much as it revisits, revises, and renegotiates its meaning.

Horror, to me, captures something raw and truthful about the world we live in.

A city with a great love and passion for the literary arts is worth celebrating.

Applications are now open to table at the 10th edition of the Read Quebec Book Fair! This annual celebration of Quebec’s English-language literature returns on December 6 and 7, 2025 in the beautiful and historic Casa d’Italia. Book publishers and those dealing in magazines, journals and literary wares are welcome […]