Peppermint white chocolate mochas have usurped pumpkin spice lattes for the season. Holiday music has been spilling from retail outlets since at least November. Drivers are flipping their best Christmas gestures, cashiers are saying "Happy Holidays" through clenched teeth,  and we only have ten more days to find the perfect present for that loved one … Continue reading A little not-so-Christmas story list

The McLuhan House Book Club Writer and publisher, Jason Lee Norman, from Edmonton is The McLuhan House Book Club featured reader for December . He is the editor of two 40 Below anthologies and has also created the publishing imprint Monto Books that released three books in 2017, included the ambitious Project Compass, a novel … Continue reading Write to the End…

We try to host a creative writing workshop at least once a month. Nothing too serious, but it gives the writers in our neighbourhood a chance to gather and do a little free writing. We get out of our heads (and any current piece we might be working on or struggling with) and use writing … Continue reading Write Away

Writers are well acquainted with stress. We write it, live it, love it, haaaate it. Great ideas fade to black when our fingers aren't quick enough, deadlines loom, rejections fill our inbox, the occasional computer system overload and crash. It ain't fun and yet it is. We are a complicated group. We would wither to … Continue reading Write Your Holiday Stress Away

The Scotiabank Giller Prize was established in 1994 by Toronto businessman and philanthropist Jack Rabinovitch (who died this August), in memory of his late wife, literary columnist Doris Giller. In just two decades it has become one of the top literary awards in Canada, with the winner every November hauling in a cool C$100,000 and … Continue reading A Giller Prize Reading List

With All Hallows' Eve just days away, we thought we'd do another reading list. So get ready for some spookiness with these great reads, none of which are written by a guy named Steven King. (Nothing at all against Mr. King. But he doesn't need to be on every list, does he?) Hangsaman, Shirley Jackson … Continue reading A Halloween Reading List