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Behind Every Great Woman… (Is Another Great Woman)
Q&A with Jillian Tamaki, Author of Boundless
Among its literary-award peers, one of the things that makes the Carol Shields Prize unusual is that it’s open to graphic novelists. This means that, on top of the many awards she’s already won, author-illustrator Jillian Tamaki may one day bag a Shields as well.
Women Reading Women: Sophie Jai
Debut novelist Sophie Jai joins us on the blog for another installation of Women Reading Women.
Women Reading Women: Amanda West Lewis
“As we read books by more genders, sexualities and cultures, we open our worldview and our lives become richer.” Writer and theatre creator Amanda West Lewis joins us on our blog.
Women Reading Women: Carley Fortune
“Read to become inspired and jealous and bored, then figure out why. If you aren’t a greedy reader, you won’t be a great writer.” Journalist turned author Carley Fortune shares her insights.
Women Reading Women: Sonya Singh
“I think books by South Asian women are more important than ever before — because it time to tell our stories. It is time to share our experiences, traditions.” Author Sonya Singh shares her experience as a first-time author.
Women Reading Women: Katie Zdybel
“We have to stop dismissing feminine wisdom as an extremely limited, not very valuable source and live in such a way that women are allowed to be much greater and more powerful.” Author Katie Zdybel shares her favourite books and writing advice.
Women Reading Women: Sidura Ludwig
“Readers both need to see their own experiences reflected in books, and they need to be introduced to experiences outside of their own.”
Women Reading Women: Louise Claire Johnson
“In 2022, it’s easy to forget that for so many centuries, women weren’t allowed to write books or document their lives as part of the human condition.”
Women Reading Women: Marissa Stapley
“I feel compelled to push forward as a female author, to push boundaries and ignore those who don’t take me seriously.”
Women Reading Women: Samantha Garner
“But if you tell stories, if you create worlds inside your head and share them with others, you’re as much of a writer as anyone else. Explore the questions that you can’t stop thinking about, tell the stories you want to tell.” SFF writer Samantha Garner shares her thoughts on being a writer.
Q&A with Myriam J.A. Chancy, author of What Storm, What Thunder
Myriam Chancy’s tour-de-force fourth novel, What Storm, What Thunder (HarperCollins/Tin House, 2021), captures the 2010 Haitian earthquake kaleidoscopically through the eyes of a series of interlinked characters.
Q&A with Jael Richardson, author of Gutter Child
Jael Richardson’s first novel, Gutter Child was published in January 2021, and is already on the Toronto Star’s bestseller list. Richardson, the founding director of the Festival of Literary Diversity (FOLD), is also the author of The Stone Thrower, a memoir about her father, Chuck Ealey, a former CFL quarterback, and a children’s book based on the memoir. She has been a supporter of the Carol Shields Prize for Fiction for a number of years.
Q&A with popular historian and author Charlotte Gray
Lennie Goodings on where feminism and publishing intersect
“These days, publishing wants to change and it talks about diverse voices. But I think publishing really only changes when social movements force change.”