Category: Interviews

Editorial Assistant Caitlyn Sinclair's Interview with 2025 Creative Nonfiction Contest winner Shelley Pacholok whose story "How Not to Say Good-Bye to Your Professor" was published in Issue 305 (Autumn 2025)

Editorial Assistant Michael Yvon Robichaud's Interview with Danica Klewchuk whose story "Important Intersection Ahead" was published in Issue 304 (Summer Creative Nonfiction 2025)

Editorial Assistant Michael Yvon Robichaud's Interview with Nancy Hui Sulaiman whose story "The Impact of a Father’s Terminal Cancer Diagnosis" was published in Issue 304 (Summer Creative Nonfiction 2025)

Editorial Assistant Kath Gerobin's Interview with Mike Barnes whose story "Animals" was published in Issue 302 (Winter 2025)

Editorial Assistant Yogesh Tak's Interview with 2024 Fiction Prize Winner Luanne Gauvreau whose story "Roses for Bodies" was published in Issue 302 (Winter 2025)

Photo credit: Michel Dupuis

Editorial Assistant Miriam Richer Interviews Petra Chambers whose three poems appear in Issue 301 (Autumn 2024)

Miriam Richer: All three of your poems, in one sense or another, are about the speaker’s relationship to the past—revisiting a childhood home, reminiscing about adolescence, identifying with a rescue animal’s inscrutable history. How does the passage of time figure into your poetry? 

Petra Chambers: I love thinking about time. 

Editorial Assistant Laura Broadbent Interviews Nancy Huggett whose story "I am a good mother. I am a bad mother. I am no mother at all." won our 2024 Creative Nonfiction Contest and was published in Issue 301 (Autumn 2024)

Laura Broadbent: On the liberating constraint of genre: What constraints does creative nonfiction afford you to speak in ways you otherwise couldn’t?  

Editorial Assistant Miriam Richer Interviews Margaret Watson whose story "The Returning Wife" appeared in Issue 301 (Autumn 2024)

Miriam Richer: “The Returning Wife” is such a psychologically complex story. I can’t imagine the narrative without a character like Rosemary at its centre, and yet the plot is—at least according to your taxi driver—all too common. Which came to you first: the protagonist, or the scenario?

Editorial Assistant Jamie Kitt's Interview with Clea Young whose story "In Loco Parentis" was published in Issue 299 (Spring 2024)

— Clea Young’s stories have appeared in three volumes of The Journey Prize Stories, and she has twice been shortlisted for the award. Her first collection, Teardown, was published in 2016 with Freehand Books. Her second collection, Welcome to the Neighbourhood, is forthcoming with House of Anansi Press in 2025.

Editorial Assistant Anastasios Mihalopoulos' Interview with Adèle Barclay, previous winner of The Fiddlehead 2022 Fiction Contest, whose Creative Nonfiction Story "Cobra Blue Mustang Strat" was published in Issue 298 (Winter 2024) on art as a way to survive, fallibility of human memory, and how her poetry has served in her creative nonfiction practice.