Maria Saba (National Capital Region), an Ottawa-based writer, Storyteller, and arts educator was awarded the 2021 Wallace Stegner Grant for the arts by the Eastend Arts Council in Saskatchewan. Maria will also be the writer in residence at the Wallace Stegner House, where she will work on her manuscript and engage with the Eastend community during…
Lorrie Potvin’s (National Capital Region) follow-up memoir to First Gear – A Motorcycle Memoir (2015), Horses in the Sand, is being published this spring by Inanna Publications. See an interview with Lorrie and Open Book Toronto. Horses in the Sand will be available in May 2022 through Inanna and First Gear can be purchased here. For all Lorrie’s news…
Lucian Childs (Toronto Branch) has had his debut novel-in-stories, Dreaming Home (Biblioasis), favorably reviewed in The New York Times. Kia Corthron calls the book “…eminently accomplished, [and] often deliciously droll.” The review appeared in print in the book review supplement and is available online now for subscribers. This comes on top of favorable reviews in Canada’s two top…
