RM Vaughan (Toronto) “I don’t care about the scandal Lynn Crosbie’s masterpiece Paul’s Case caused. The scandal, such as it was, began on an inept note – a Toronto Star columnist, I forget which Agony Auntie, proclaimed she was so offended by Crosbie’s novel that she wanted to slap Crosbie or...
Plenitude Magazine has been asking around, checking in far and wide with queer Canadian writers—poets, novelists, playwrights, comic makers, spinners of short stories, journalists, and whoever else comes to mind. We’ve been keen to discover the literature they’ve devoured and savoured, the books...
by Vivek Shraya Even though I edit a lot during the writing process (a practice I strongly advise against when I am facilitating writing workshops #hypocrite), there are often chunks of a book draft that get chucked. This is because I am obsessed with efficiency in writing, where the math is always...
Recommend by Trevor Corkum A few years back, a friend sent me a call for something called the Loud & Queer Cabaret, then part of Edmonton’s Exposure Festival of the Arts. Loud & Queer is part of the longest-running queer arts showcase of its kind in Western Canada, a celebration of queer...
Ivan E. Coyote and Rae Spoon, Gender Failure (Arsenal Pulp Press, 2014.) Paperback, 256 pp., $17.95 Reviewed by Rachna Contractor Based on their live multimedia show which toured across Canada, the US and UK, Gender Failure is a collection of work about rejecting the gender binary and retiring...
Interview by Nancy Jo Cullen Tamai Kobayashi is the 2014 winner of the Writer’s Trust of Canada’s Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBT Emerging Writer. She is the author of the novel Prairie Ostrich, published this spring by Goose Lane Press and two short story collections, Quixotic Erotic (Arsenal Pulp...
