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3 Crafts to Make with Paper: Stars, Bunting, and More

How do I decorate with little to no money? Scrap paper and wallpaper!
Fun fact: stores selling paint and other décor throw away their wallpaper sample books at the end of each season – but if you ask nicely, they might give the sample book to you instead. Apparently teachers have been using them for years as free art supplies. Now that you’re in on the secret, you can too.

Review: Everyone Knows your Mother is a Witch by Rivka Galchen

The unconventional approach to describing the legal battle, the juxtaposition of satirical characters against the cutting realism of the setting – this will definitely be a favourite book of 2021.

Review of Refuse: CanLit in Ruins

My tangling together of value and production, identity and respect paralleled a similar phenomenon in Canadian literature as a whole. Refuse has shown me what lurks behind the façade of my dream job.

Review: Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

Gideon the Ninth mixes genres with glee. Its title character, a teenage girl trapped in indentured servitude on a dreary planet called the Ninth, is desperate to join the army (here called the “Cohort”). Harrow, her employer and the de facto ruler of the Ninth, is desperate to keep Gideon at her side, apparently out of sheer vindictiveness.

What Kind of Fiction Editor Do You Need?

Don’t settle for the convenience of AI – find our which (human) editor can bring your work to the next level.

Review: The Voyage Out by Virginia Woolf

Originally posted in 2021. Since then some of Woolf’s writing (a 1915 diary entry in particular) has been widely criticized as ableist. As impressive as Woolf’s prose may be, I do not agree with her opinions on illness and do not support the killing or incarceration of people judged to be “ineffective” or intellectually disabled.Continue reading “Review: The Voyage Out by Virginia Woolf”