interview

While Gabe Foreman was in Winnipeg at the Thin Air Festival earlier this fall, and while there, he spoke with Uptown about his first poetry collection, A Complete Encyclopedia of Different Types of People:

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This spring, Toronto high-school students from two Writer's Craft classes conducted interviews with some of Canada's finest poets. The interviews will be posted on The Great Canadian Writer's Craft page on Open Book Toronto in June and July 2011.

Recently, a student, Rachel, interviewed Gary Barwin (The Porcupinity of the Stars):

Sean Dixon spoke to Open Book Toronto about his novel, The Many Revenges of Kip Flynn, on July 13, 2011. The conversation covered everything from the amorphous city of Toronto, the importance of the right table and, of course, revenge.

Here's an excerpt:

Open Book: Tell us about your new book, The Many Revenges of Kip Flynn.

Suzette Mayr recently talked to literary website Open Book Toronto about the benefits of taking -- and teaching -- Creative Writing classes, the challenges of writing a novel about teen suicide and the difficult experience that compelled her to write Monoceros, a tragicomic novel about the suicide of a gay high school student told from the perspectives of his acquaintances and friends.

Here's an excerpt:

As part of the upcoming Summer Literary Seminars in Montreal, some of the SLS faculty are being interviewed in Maisonneuve. In this installment, poet Sachiko Murakami (The Invisibility Exhibit) interviews Christian Bök (Eunoia) about his current project, The Xenotext Experiment:

The June 2011 issue of Quill & Quire features an interview with author Sean Dixon about the story behind and journey to publishing his new novel The Many Revenges of Kip Flynn. Below is an excerpt:

CKUA's Ken Davis interviewed Suzette Mayr about Monoceros – the story that inspired it, the unicorn obsession, the Calgary setting – on CKUA's literary program,' Bookmark.'

Listen to the interview here.

In advance of a multi-author book launch at Canmore's Communitea Cafe, the Banff Crag & Canyon interviewed the three authors, Steven Ross Smith, Rosemary Nixon and our very own Suzette Mayr, on April 19, 2011:

Suzette Mayr talked to the Calgary Herald and reporter Eric Volmers about the process of creating her new novel, Monoceros, in the Sunday, April 17 edition.

In the feature article, Mayr talks about the events that inspired the novel, disenfranchised grief, Catholic schools and (of course) unicorns. Here's a sample:

Jen Currin was interviewed about her highly acclaimed new poetry collection, The Inquisition Yours by Ottawa's The Wig in advance of her two readings the weekend of April 16. Journalist Maria Feldman sat down and asked her a few questions about her poetry: