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Alexander Huls is a Toronto-based journalist. His work

Coming home

Why Canadian booksellers are heading over the border for support

Power and politics

Dimitri Nasrallah draws on global autocracies to inform his modern allegory

Safety zone

How two university creative-writing programs are building respect in the classroom

Not easy being green

Feeling envious of another author’s success is normal, just don’t let it blind you to your own accomplishments

Adventure time

Shane Peacock and Nimbus Publishing relaunch the author’s popular Dylan Maples series

Truth be told

I want smart stories that don’t falsely do away with the reality of violence in women’s lives

Ear to the ground

Rebecca Best, Kobo’s manager of original content, on the digital platform’s plans for the audiobook market

Visual aid

Canadian art-book publishers reach out to galleries and authors after U.K.’s Black Dog Publishing declares bankruptcy

From the heart

Speaking her own story provided a means of transcending negative experiences by bringing them into the light,

Guided by his voice

Ensuring the movie adaptation of Indian Horse stayed true to Richard Wagamese’s source material involved one main factor: the author himself

Seeing things

Emma Healey’s diagnosis of a visual deficiency lent her a new perspective on life and poetry

Reclamation songs

Returning to her ancestral roots provided Shannon Webb-Campbell with poetic inspiration

Living in difficulty

Jeff Latosik uses juxtaposition and ambiguity to mine truths about the human condition

In transmission

From military brat to acclaimed poet, Dani Couture has never lost her sense of curiosity

Life and death

Herménégilde Chiasson’s debut poetry collection – one of the core texts of Acadian literature – is finally appearing in English translation

Finding home

With her first poetry collection, Carol Rose Daniels explores concepts of healing and balance in the aftermath of the Sixties Scoop

A resplendent sparrow

A.F. Moritz’s selected poems stand as a jaw-dropping testament to a lifetime’s work

Opening moves

A trio of debuts addresses autobiographical subjects and the forces that shape us

Life and love

Story collections from Erin Frances Fisher and Carrianne Leung differ in their approach to pace and nuance

Theory and practice

Audrey Schulman’s new novel is described as almost dystopian, but fails at the nuances of world-building

The dark night

Patrick Lane’s second novel is steeped in dread but also in detailed, poetic language

The swarm

Harriet Alida Lye employs foreshadowing and large dollops of symbolism in a quirky psychological thriller

Bjorn to be wild

A curious big brother finds adventure with a new plaything – his little sister’s baby carrier

Tough girl in love

Things get uncomfortable when a policeman’s daughter falls for another officer on the force

Best friends – but not forever

Two middle-grade novels explore issues of friendship and community

Success and the city

New York and Paris provide inspiration for activism and creativity in new picture-book biographies

No boy is an island

An 11-year-old has to leave the mainland in order to work through his guilt and regret

Twin spell

Julie Flett’s Q&Q cover illustration gets a second life gracing a new children’s book by Monique Gray Smith