Yue Zeng interviews Lee Kvern
INTRODUCTION Lee Kvern is a female author of both short stories and novels. Unlike many other award-winning authors, she began her writing career after having a four-year degree from ACAD in graphic design and illustration. With no previous training on creating a literary piece, her writing life started with her encountering a writer at […]
Ahad Asad interviews Joy Pritchard
Joy Pritchard is a registered nurse, writer, teacher, and researcher (just to name a few of her accomplishments). After becoming a nurse at the Tamworth Base Hospital in 1967, she performed her clinical training at the University of Alberta hospital. She went on to attain her Bachelor of Education degree and taught at the University […]
Christie Allarie interviews Rudy Wiebe
Rudy Wiebe has found great success writing several novels including The Temptations of Big Bear and A Discovery of Strangers both of which received The Governor General’s Award. As well as his memoir Of This Earth: A Mennonite Boyhood in the Boreal Forest which received The Charles Taylor Prize. He is currently a professor emeritus […]
Laurie Fuhr interview by Emily Kapty
By emailing with Laurie Fuhr I have gotten to know the bubbly, passionate woman that she is! Her poetry and songwriting is heartfelt and unique, with powerful messages that inspire me to grow as an individual. Understanding how accomplished Laurie is, I want to know how she got to where she is today. In this […]
Thomas Ivanc’s interview with Nicolas Brown
I recently had the opportunity to interview Nicolas Brown, the President of the Canadian Authors Association-Alberta Branch. He was the Issues editor of the “NAIT Nugget” (a student newspaper at the Northern Alberta Institute of Technology) from 2015-2016 and has worked briefly in the University of Alberta’s Department of Elementary and Secondary Education. T […]
Kaitlyn Wilson and Steven Sandor
Steven Sandor is an author who got his start with a paper in Morinville, Alta. He also worked with Westlock News, Vue Weekly in Edmonton, and wrote an Oilers Column concerning hockey culture alongside John Turner. His passion for sports intrigued me. Curious, I learnt his sports writing started with his initial […]
CSL – Author Interview – Blaine Newton – Ben Palmer
Blaine Newton is an accomplished Canadian playwright, sketch writer, improviser, as well as, to use his own words, a “sometime engineer”; having received his BSc in civil engineering from the University of Manitoba in 1981. As a member of the Playwrights’ Guild of Canada, past president of both the Writers’ Guild of Alberta and Alberta […]
Katelynn Shigeta and Mary Graham
Mary Graham is a highly experienced former journalist, but as of recently, she is focusing on writing her own book on filmmaking. Born in Quebec, she eventually fled to New Brunswick amidst the FLQ crisis, and now she currently resides in Calgary. She has multiple degrees such as; a Masters degree in Marine law and […]
Mara Palahniuk interviews Rona Altrows
Rona Altrows – Seeing Life Through an Author’s Eyes by Mara Palahniuk It was an honor to interview Rona Altrows. Upon researching her, I discovered that she is a woman of many talents and passions: fiction writing, editing, essay writing, playwriting, and advocating for human rights. This Calgarian is extremely accomplished, having published six major […]
CSL Interview with Steven Ross Smith, by Scott Roberts
Steven Ross Smith is a Canadian poet and self-taught writer born in Toronto. At Ryerson Polytechnical Institute, Smith obtained a diploma in Radio and Television Arts before eventually settling down in Banff where he is currently the appointed Banff Poet Laureate. Smith is continuing his writing and working on the 7th book in his […]