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“I am constantly blown away by the complexity of my home in all of its parts – something that doesn’t come across from t...
08/07/2024

“I am constantly blown away by the complexity of my home in all of its parts – something that doesn’t come across from those who come into this city for a few days and make declarations about it. I hope our complicatedness in all of its beauty comes across in this book.”

Read more about Wînipêk: Visions of Canada from an Indigenous Centre by Niigaan Sinclair (McClelland & Stewart) at https://prairiebooksnow.ca/articles/view/optimism-complexity-tie-together-collection-of-writings-on-winnipeg.

"Our book suggests that we are going to see more companies using the excuse of the low carbon transition as cover to for...
08/01/2024

"Our book suggests that we are going to see more companies using the excuse of the low carbon transition as cover to force concessions from their work forces,” the editors say.

“If we are correct, fossil fuel workers are going to need to actively engage in discussions about the future of their industry and build the kind of power needed to negotiate a transition that is just for them as workers.”

Read more from Emily Eaton, Andrew Stevens, and Sean Tucker, editors of Unjust Transition: The Future for Fossil Fuel Workers (Fernwood Publishing) at https://prairiebooksnow.ca/articles/view/collection-connects-labour-issues-unions-with-environmental-justice

Radchenka describes Hero-Man as a “well-intentioned golden age superhero that we all know and love from our days of read...
07/29/2024

Radchenka describes Hero-Man as a “well-intentioned golden age superhero that we all know and love from our days of reading classic comic books.”

Schuster, on the other hand, has a more candid but no less accurate description for Hero-Man. “Hero-Man is kind of an idiot, but his heart is in the right place.”

Read more about Hero-Man by Lyndon Radchenka and Zach Schuster (At Bay Press): https://prairiebooksnow.ca/articles/view/anyone-can-be-a-hero-even-if-hes-kind-of-an-idiot-in-new-graphic-novel

“As Métis women, we’ve often been expected to mediate and negotiate, but we don’t necessarily get credit for what we bri...
07/22/2024

“As Métis women, we’ve often been expected to mediate and negotiate, but we don’t necessarily get credit for what we bring and know and do. And so we needed to make space for us. So this is the first sort of Métis book of this kind, in this way,” says Markides.

Read more about Around the Kitchen Table, edited by Laura Forsythe and Jennifer Markides (University of Manitoba Press), at https://prairiebooksnow.ca/articles/view/multidimensional-collection-shows-metis-womens-work-is-everywhere

07/16/2024

In the eclectic, vibrant landscape of Prairie books, many publishers work hard to cultivate their own niches and specialties. Fewer of these balance such interests with an institutional direction, and fewer still manage to find the sweet spot between such specificity and a broader appeal. But CMU Pr...

Born and raised on the Swan River First Nation community in Northern Alberta, lifelong comics lover Christopher Twin not...
03/21/2024

Born and raised on the Swan River First Nation community in Northern Alberta, lifelong comics lover Christopher Twin noticed a lack in the type of stories out there – and decided to write those stories himself.

“I haven’t seen any graphic novels/comics in the horror genre that are written by or are about Indigenous people,” Twin shares of his new graphic novel, Bad Medicine (Conundrum Press).

“I think the difference between urban legends and traditional knowledge sharing/storytelling is the meaning and purpose behind them. Cree people have a rich history of oral storytelling and shared knowledge and lessons through story. I think the trope of swapping campfire stories mixes well with those oral traditions."

Read more about this book: https://prairiebooksnow.ca/articles/view/campfire-tales-told-in-indigenous-horror-genre-blend-classic-and-modern-forms

According to Nigerian writer Ifeoma Chinwuba, two areas of interest led her to write her new novel Sons of the East (Gri...
03/20/2024

According to Nigerian writer Ifeoma Chinwuba, two areas of interest led her to write her new novel Sons of the East (Griots Lounge).

“I wanted to chronicle a smidgen of the crosscurrents and issues churning inside us as a people,” she states. “As well, I’d interacted and interfaced with Igbo industrialists and entrepreneurs, whose lifestyle fascinated me and spurred me on to document the same for posterity.”

The result is an urgent, thought-provoking tale about an entrepreneurial family beset by rivalry, chauvinism, and infidelity. The East in the title refers to the Igbo demographic in the eastern part of Nigeria, the location of Chinwuba’s tribe as well as the novel’s setting.

Read more about this book: https://prairiebooksnow.ca/articles/view/entrepreneurial-igbo-family-drama-contends-with-inner-demons-societal-forces

Métis novelist, poet, and filmmaker Katherena Vermette’s work shines a light on her hometown of Winnipeg, particularly i...
03/18/2024

Métis novelist, poet, and filmmaker Katherena Vermette’s work shines a light on her hometown of Winnipeg, particularly its North End neighbourhood.

Winnipeg’s complicated beauty shines through in Vermette’s upcoming publications, each of which represents an ending. The Circle (Penguin Canada), the third and final in a set of companion novels that includes The Break and The Strangers, concludes the multi-generational saga that explores the impact of an assault on a young Métis girl.

“A long time ago, a storyteller teacher of mine told me that it’s our responsibility, as storytellers, to take people through. We can’t leave people in the darkness – we have to show the way to the other side, the light, if you will,” she explains.

“I take this responsibility very seriously. I choose to write about things that are hard. I do so because they are near and dear to me, and I think they are worthy of literary attention. But I also refuse to stay in the darkness.”

Read more about this book: https://prairiebooksnow.ca/articles/view/final-novel-omnibus-collection-conclude-two-series-for-katherena-vermette

With her new novel, The Twistical Nature of Spoons (Turnstone Press), Winnipeg author Patti Grayson returns to adult fic...
03/14/2024

With her new novel, The Twistical Nature of Spoons (Turnstone Press), Winnipeg author Patti Grayson returns to adult fiction after a brief foray into middle years/YA fiction. She appears to have kept a childlike sense of playfulness and wonder, though, in this story of magic and curses.

Grayson hopes the novel will transport readers into a world where disbelief is suspended and a sense of wonder prevails.

“I hope the work also creates opportunity for pondering larger questions – specifically those surrounding love, and fear, and what it means to be a family,” she says.

Read more about this book: https://prairiebooksnow.ca/articles/view/parallel-narrative-and-playfulness-mark-graysons-return-to-adult-fiction

Alice Major's latest poetry collection from Turnstone Press spans the globe and millennia, weaving together past, presen...
07/26/2023

Alice Major's latest poetry collection from Turnstone Press spans the globe and millennia, weaving together past, present, future.

“I think the widespread tendency for human societies to imagine narratives about ‘end times’ may be a way of trying to cope with the existential conflict between knowing we’ll certainly die, but not knowing when our end will actually come."

Read more at https://prairiebooksnow.ca/articles/view/with-six-takes-on-the-apocalypse-and-meditations-on-anger-knife-on-snow-is-oddly-hopeful

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