“It’s meant to be a user’s guide”: part two of our conversation with Gwynne Dyer on his latest book, Intervention Earth

Would something like the possible re-election of Donald Trump as President of the United States be keeping you awake at night? The re-election of Donald Trump would be a bad…

How to salvage a planet and save ourselves:

Journalist and historian Gwynne Dyer is the author of more than a dozen books on war, terrorism, and foreign affairs books and writes a twice-weekly column, published internationally; in his…

“On the surface, this appears like a story about the search for Jordan. But it’s really about what we discovered while searching for him”

On Thanksgiving weekend, 2020, Greg Naterer’s 25-year-old son, Jordan, was reported missing while hiking in Manning Park, BC; he was a graduate student in engineering at UBC. Called By Mother Earth…

Each story came from a grain of sand in my imagination: Rosalind GIll releases second collection of short fiction

Can you tell us a little about yourself? I’ve been fascinated by language all my life. I grew up in St John’s, attended Bishop Spencer College and did my BA…

Allison Graves: “I live in St John’s where there’s brilliant writers everywhere who seem to write and publish often”

Can you tell us a little about yourself? I’m a PhD student at Memorial where I’m working on a thesis in contemporary Irish literature. I live downtown St John’s and…

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“It was like writing an historical novel, but the history I was working with was one I had created”: Part two of our conversation with Michael Crummey

There’s a terrific storm in The Adversary – is this based on a real storm? It’s based on some real storms that I’ve experienced. It’s based to a certain extent…

Michael Crummey: I’m waiting for an idea that has enough gravitational pull

When you were writing The Innocents, did you know that you would write The Adversary as well?  No, I had no idea. When did you know that you were going…

“I wanted to make sure that any story I told was a funny story”:

Part two of our conversation with Rick Mercer about his latest book, The Road Years. Did you keep a journal during the seasons of The Rick Mercer Report? I never did….

Rick Mercer on the road: “It was part of our philosophy that we wouldn’t have a crew that couldn’t fit in a minivan”

The Road Years, Rick Mercer‘s follow-up to Talking to Canadians, takes us through 15 seasons of The Rick Mercer Report, as he and his production team composed of field producer Michal…

Ink, splash & colour: Elizabeth Whitten publishes first book exploring NL comics

Can you tell us a little about yourself? It’s interesting that you went from anthropology to journalism. I’m a journalist based in St John’s, and I’ve been in this field for…

Jay McGrath & the end of the world as he knows it: “It hit me – what if something bad happened? Like really bad. What would we do?”

Can you tell us a little about yourself? I grew up in Branch, which is a community about 90 minutes outside St John’s. I did a bunch of stuff at…

“Certainly there’s no lack of memorable characters in the pages of Newfoundland history”; Ted Rowe on his new biography of Sir Richard Squires

I liked your motive for writing this book – that you were simply curious about Richard Squires. Do you remember your first impressions of him? Well I came to the…

“The novel is fiction, but my own experiences couldn’t help but colour the story”: Willow Kean debuts with Eyes in Front When Running

Why a novel? How was the writing process different than playwrighting? Even though it’s in the third person, so much of the story is internal; Cleo working through things in…

The Gull Workshop: At some point my son said, ‘That would be a cool title for a book’

These stories strike me as quite different tonally from your novel The Artificial Newfoundlander – they’re still (broadly) contemporary and full of wit, but the situations often hint at, or veer…

Beth Ryan: “Telling stories is one of the ways we try to find meaning in our lives”

Can you tell us a little about yourself? Storytelling has been a huge part of my life since childhood when I would entertain myself by reading stories, writing them, or…

Matthew Hollett: “There’s a kinship between photography and poetry – they both tend to be smaller, quieter ways of making things”

Can you tell us a little about yourself? I’m a writer and photographer in St John’s. My background is in visual arts, and my writing is often very visual –…

“Seeing your own home in a fresh way can be difficult, and Matthew Hollett does it with grace, humour and intelligence” – review by Monica Kidd

Optic Nerve by Matthew Hollett Brick Books, 2023 $22.95  80 pages Full disclosure. I first became aware of this collection of poetry a few years back, shortly after St John’s…

“My book is totally non-fictional and every story is exactly the way I experienced them”

Can you tell us a little about yourself? I was born in Queens Cove, NL, in 1945 and completed my high school education in St John’s. After graduation, one of my…

Precious Little: review by Marie Wadden

Author Camille Fouillard was right to resist publishers’ suggestions that she write a non-fiction account of the four decades she has worked with the Labrador Innu. Instead, she has captured…

William Ping: For my entire life, I had people telling me how much they respected my grandfather. But, I never really knew him

Can you tell us a little about yourself? I’m a novelist and a journalist. I’m born and raised (and remain) in St John’s. Though my father’s side of the family…

Joshua Goudie: This book is dedicated to children struggling to find their place in the world

Can you tell us a little about yourself? I grew up in central Newfoundland. Since then I’ve since lived in communities all across the island. My background is in theatre…

Q&A WITH WRITER SUSAN CHALKER BROWNE

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Could you tell us a little about yourself? I began writing children’s books when my own children were small and have since branched out into books for adults. Mother of…