Matthew Rooney and Seagulls

Can you tell us a little about yourself?   Sure. I am a poet, short story author, and occasionally a visual artist. Most of my life I’ve lived in Halifax,…

A Look Inside Our Spring Issue

One of my all-time favourite Ted Talks is the late, great Sir Ken Robinson’s 2006 lecture, “Do Schools Kill Creativity?” For a few years, this moving speech was required viewing…

Emily Hepditch – Drawn to the Gothic

At university you studied linguistics, psychology, and criminology. That sounds like a scholastic blueprint for writing Gothic literature. Was that in your mind even then? And why Gothic? I think…