Category - Interviews

Interviews Rachna Contractor

An Interview with Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

 Interview by Rachna Contractor Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha is a queer femme sick and disabled Sri Lankan/Irish/Roma writer, performance artist, educator, and hellraiser. The Lambda and ALA Stonewall Award–winning author of Dirty River: A Queer Femme of Color Dreaming Her Way Home, Bodymap...

Interviews Matthew Walsh

Arleen Paré on Writing Tough Poems

by Matthew Walsh   Arleen Paré, author of Paper Trail, Leaving Now and the Governor General’s Award-winning book Lake of Two Mountains (Brick Books, 2014), has a new collection out this year, landing right on the heels of her last book. He Leaves His Face in the Funeral Car (Caitlin Press...

Interviews Matthew Walsh

Sarah Ellis on Writing for Young People

by Matthew Walsh   Sarah Ellis is a YA and children’s literature writer whose work has garnered her some notable awards, including the Lieutenant Governor’s Award for Literary Excellence and the Governor General’s Award for Children’s Literature. She has also worked as...

Interviews Matthew Walsh Writers’ Room

Sassafras Lowrey on Queering Peter Pan

Interview by Matthew Walsh Sassafras Lowrey’s most recent novel, Lost Boi, was released a few months ago with Arsenal Pulp Press, and it has already gone into a second printing. Lowrey has even been recognized on the streets of Brooklyn, where they live, by fans of the book, which takes the fairy...

Interviews Matthew Walsh Writers’ Room

Catching up with Jillian Christmas

Interview by Matthew Walsh   Jillian Christmas is a powerful force in the spoken word and slam poetry scene. Many of our readers are already familiar with Christmas’s work both in Vancouver and nation-wide. I had the lovely surprise of attending the reading series Chicken Sessions, where...

Interviews Matthew Walsh Writers’ Room

Amber Dawn on How We Write Each Other

Interview by Matthew Walsh Writer, filmmaker, and performance artist Amber Dawn has released a new collection of poems this year, titled Where the Words End and My Body Begins. Her previous works, Sub Rosa and How Poetry Saved My Life: A Hustler’s Memoir, have garnered wide acclaim and...

Interviews Leah Horlick Writers’ Room

SD Holman: Not like the other girls

Interview by Leah Horlick A native of Los Angeles, SD Holman is a photo-based artist and Artistic Director of The Queer Arts Festival, an artist-run three-week, multidisciplinary arts festival in Vancouver, Canada. Recipient of the 2014 YWCA Women of Distinction Award in Arts and Culture, one of...

Andrea Routley Interviews Writers’ Room

Interview with Nancy Jo Cullen

I’d like to introduce you to one of the contributors to Plenitude’s inaugural issue: 2012 Journey Prize nominee, Nancy Jo Cullen.   Andrea Routley: You were recently nominated for the 2012 Journey Prize for your story, “Ashes.” Can you tell us about that experience...