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…
Poetry, performance, and physical connection
Can you tell us a little about yourself? I think you were born in Ottawa – what brought you to NL? I was actually born in the UK, where…
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…
Lindsay Ruck – “Black history is our collective history”
Can you describe your research process? Where did you look for information? I imagine you found some gaps in the documentation – how did you fill those? I was…
More than groceries in Susan Flanagan’s shopping cart
I’ve read that John Hughes was inspired to write Home Alone after momentarily losing track of one of his children. While I’m sure you’ve never left a supermarket with someone…
Megan Gail Coles: Holding up the mirror
You write plays, short stories, novels, and now poetry. What are the challenges and rewards of each form? What will readers find in your poetry that would be different from…