Dead Writers is a collaborative fiction project of novella-length stories by Jean Marc Ah-Sen, Michael LaPointe, Cassidy McFadzean, and Naben Ruthnum. In this issue of Why I Wrote this Book, each author tells us why they wrote their pieces!
While appearing to be a workbook, it is also a playbook and meditation for writers, as well as creatives.
A fast-paced adventure that asks the hard questions of the responsibilities of sons and teenagers.
There’s not much more you need to do to sell me on a book than to tell me it’s about figure skating.
This Zoom interview was recorded on February 1st, 2025. The questions and responses are a combination of Zoom interview content and email correspondence.
In her self-portrait from a chronological distance, Percy celebrates a semi-misspent youth—all of its fiery enthusiasms and blind alleys, its dramas and earnestness, its lessons learned, misunderstandings, messiness, unbridled pleasures, and excesses. And, yes, humiliations.
Remaindered People is the title story for this impressive collection. Brij is a young man who is currently unemployed and seemingly without direction, yet when he accepts a position as a caregiver to his friend’s father, he comes to genuinely care for the aging patriarch. This piece establishes a very fine standard for the rest …
Although an in person, recorded interview did take place in London, Ontario Between Saad and me, I effortlessly deleted the entire thing from my computer, my Zoom account, and existence. This interview is therefore made up entirely of Saad’s written reply.
In The Art of Forgiveness, Chris Benjamin presents readers with short fictions in grim tones about three friends — Gerry, Long, and Drew — in a collection that could have been called Men Without Women if Hemingway first, then Murakami, hadn’t used that title.
At a museum in an unnamed African city, librarian turned cotton farmer turned security guard Toby Kunta takes a hostage — a freelance journalist originally from this country, now based in Berlin.
Featuring Saad T Farooqi, Shawna Lemay, Jamie Kitts, and sophie anne edwards
Tilting Towards Joy, a collection of short stories on the themes of making and finding community, is a refreshing exploration on the complexity of human behavior.
Farooqi takes us to a post-apocalyptic Pakistan, where a war is waging, democracy has fallen away and a brutal military dictatorship pushes an ethno-nationalist agenda.
Lightly edited for clarity, this dialogue took place at Hemingway’s Bar in Toronto on November 28th, 2024. Read Part 1 here. Nina: [Laughing] Everyone wants to kiss the doberman. Anyway. Anyway. So what do I want to know about you? Kevin: [Laughs] I mean I have a response to what you just said. Nina: Oh, …
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