Canthius editor Cira Nickel recently had the pleasure of chatting with Sara Jane Strickland, a Toronto-based writer and the founder and editor of Petal Journal, an online journal for female poets.
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Kristen Smith discusses the 2015 Trillium Awards and talks to publishers and writers present at the awards about genre-bias and gender gap in the realms of awards, writing and publishing and the future of women writers.
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“Advice to emerging writers? Write the truth. Failing that, try to write the truth."
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Harsha Walia's critiques of neoliberal feminism are focused on untangling the current feminist rhetoric of independence (which reasserts Enlightenment ideals with strong ties to imperialism and capitalism) and inserting interdependence in its place. An expansive feminism emphasizes the ways that women need each other.
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I was in the BMV on Bloor late last August, scanning the tables near the front entrance for a copy of William Burroughs’s Naked Lunch, when The Marriage Plot caught my eye.
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As writers, we thrive when we engage with works that inspire our own projects. As a community of writers, we empower ourselves and others when we encourage women to advance their perceptions and convictions in a public forum through publication.
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