On February 24, 2022, Jes Trudel, co-founder of WritingCommunity.ca, interviewed Liselle Sambury, author of Blood Like Magic and the upcoming Blood Like Fate. About the Author Liselle Sambury is a Trinidadian-Canadian author who grew up in Toronto, Ontario, and her brand of writing can be described as “messy Black girls in fantasy situations.” In her free time, she shares helpful […]
About the Event On November 1, 2021, Jes of WritingCommunity.ca interviewed Jeremy John, author of Robert’s Hill (or The Time I Pooped My Snowsuit) and Other Christmas Stories (Dundurn Press, 2021). At the end of this interview, Jes announced details for the next Northern Ontario Book Fair. This event is part of our Author Talks series. If you are an […]
On June 27, 2021, Jes of WritingCommunity.ca sat down with author Jennifer Harris of Waterloo, ON to discuss her upcoming picture books, She Stitched the Stars (Albert Whitman, 2021) and When Your Were New (Harper Collins, 2023), poetry in Matter and Columba, and her academic publishing. We also covered important topical issues like cultural appropriation and separating the art of […]
On March 28, WritingCommunity.ca co-founder Jessica Trudel sat down for an interview with Thunder Bay author Marianne Jones, author of Maud and Me (Crossfield Publishing, 2021). With Maud and Me set for release on June 10, 2021, we thought now would be a good time to release the recording. In Maud and Me, Marianne Jones explores the inner isolation of […]
The Summer/Fall 2020 Northern Ontario Virtual Author Panel was held on September 27, 2020 and featured seven authors: Bryan Davies, Dave Wickenden, Emma L.R. Hogg, K.M. Cannon, Kay Styles, Patricia C. Lee, and Richard Whitten Barnes. We hope you enjoy this recording of the call! We had some issues with the video of the call, so we have posted it […]
