The Wednesday interview

Reading time: About 2 minutes Becky Blake says that new writers are often too hard on their early drafts. They haven’t yet learned to trust the process of release and revision…. Becky Blake is a creative writing instructor at the University of Toronto’s School of Continuing Studies. Her essays and stories have appeared in publications […]

Reading time: About 2 minutes Eufemia Fantetti suggests that writers make friends with their writing process — in order to use more energy rather than burn it up with frustration… The short fiction, A Recipe for Disaster & Other Unlikely Tales of Love, by Eufemia Fantetti, was runner-up for the Danuta Gleed Literary Award and

Reading time: About 2 minutes Fred Estes follows a terrific motto from a design thinking mentor: “You keep revising until you run out of time or money….” Fred Estes taught science for two decades near his home in San Francisco. He wrote Design Thinking: A Guide to Innovation, and Teen Innovators: Nine Young People Engineering a

Reading time: About 2 minutes Kelly S Thompson believes that some writing problems are ‘Later You’ problems. This means that, when you’re writing, your only job is to write. Worrying about tone and character and plot and reviews are all concerns you can fret over later… Kelly S. Thompson is an award-winning writer with an

Reading time: About 3 minutes Kailash Srinivasan says he doesn’t like rules when it comes to writing, and he believes it is neither glamourous nor filled with suffering… Kailash Srinivasan was born and raised in India and is now living in Vancouver, B.C. His writing often explores fractures of all kinds—personal, societal, economic, religious, and

Reading time: About 2 minutes Renée Hartleib says that building the habit of writing is far more dependable than relying on inspiration… Renée Hartleib is a Canadian writer, editor and writing mentor based out of Halifax, Nova Scotia. She is the author of Writing Your Way: A 40-Day Path of Self-Discovery and Solo Camino: An Empowering

Reading time: About 3 minutes Rowena Rae says writers should never believe that everything they write will be publishable… Rowena Rae writes both nonfiction and fiction for kids. Her nonfiction focuses on science, the environment, and health for middle-grade readers. Her most recent books are Why We Need Vaccines: How Humans Beat Infectious Diseases (2024)

Reading time: About 2 minutes When he writes poetry, Misha Solomon says he works in a linear way. “I almost always start with a title and that title rarely changes…” Misha Solomon is a homosexual poet from Tiohtià:ke/Montréal. He is the author of two chapbooks, FLORALS (above/ground press, 2020) and Full Sentences (Turret House Press, 2022), which was nominated

Reading time: About 2 minutes Sarah Boon warns that writing a thousand words a day is no guarantee of a book by year’s end… Sarah Boon is a freelance writer and editor. She has published essays, book reviews, author interviews, and articles in a range of magazines and journals, including Science, Nature, Longreads, Flyway Journal, Electric Literature, and others.

Reading time: About 2 minutes Jasmine Ruff says that writers shouldn’t fixate on form. She says she’s seen mediocre fiction writers become brilliant poets and vice versa…. Jasmine Ruff is a queer writer living in Vancouver —  the ancestral and unceded lands of the hən̓q̓əmin̓əm̓ and Sḵwx̱wú7mesh speaking peoples. Her writing has been published in