Influency 3: A Toronto Poetry Salon
Thinking of taking a course this fall? Influency 3: A Toronto Poetry Salon is a 9-week course offered by The University of Toronto School of Continuing Studies Creative Writing Program. The course is...
View ArticleThe Danforth Review’s Guide to Toronto Books: Spring 2008
As always, The Danforth Review is filled with all sorts of goodies, including reviews, fiction and a highly enjoyable "YouTube Guide to Canadian Literature." This month, TDR has published "the most...
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Interview with Maggie Helwig, Author of Girls Fall Down
In a recent interview with Coach House Books, Maggie Helwig discusses her latest novel, Girls Fall Down (2008), a book Quill & Quire praises for its "unflinching examination of contemporary urban...
View ArticleGirls Fall Down
Girls Fall DownCoach House Books, 2008danicouture writes...Maggie Helwig takes the reader through the recesses--real, imagined, and visceral--of a Toronto so familiar that you'll never look at the...
View ArticleThe ReLit Shortlists
The shortlists for the 2009 Relit Awards were announced this week. The ReLits recognize books by Canadian authors that are published by independent Canadian presses. The winners will be awarded a ReLit...
View ArticleToronto Book Awards Finalists
The finalists have been announced for the Toronto Book Awards. 2009 is the 35th anniversary of the awards. The winner will be announced on October 15th. Congratulations to the finalists!2009 Finalists...
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The Edible City: Open Book Talks to Editors Christina Palassio and Alana Wilcox
The Edible City: Toronto's Food from Farm to Fork (Coach House Books), edited by Christina Palassio and Alana Wilcox, is a must-read book for "Anyone in Toronto who eats." Fit that description? Then...
View ArticleThe bpNichol Chapbook Award Shortlist
Phoenix Community Works Foundation (PCWF) is sponsoring the 4th Annual Award Night for the bpNichol Chapbook Award. The event is on Wednesday, June 23rd, and will be held at 20 Gothic Ave (doors open...
View ArticleCoach House Books
Various authors These people make good books. Don't even get me started on a list. Oh, okay. Here's a short one:Troubled, R.M. VaughnGirls Fall Down, Maggie HelwigNeighbour Procedure, Rachel...
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Voices Carry When They Carry
By Melanie JanisseHONK FOR SOCCER AND MIND THE FENCEThese last couple of weeks, Toronto has been an open book. I look around at my neighborhood with the archeological unearthing of decrepit water mains...
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The Catharsis of Screaming
By Jenny SampirisiOn the wall in my kitchen I have a framed broadside of a Robert Kroetsch poem, titled "Hornbook #15" from The Poetics of Rita Kleinhart. It’s signed in pencil and in the corner,...
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On Writing, with Lillian Necakov
Lillian Necakov is the author of Hooligans (Mansfield Press), as well as several other collections of poetry. Lillian also runs the Boneshaker Reading series here in Toronto. Open Book talks with...
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Maggie Helwig's Girls Fall Down is the TPL's One Book Selection
This morning, the Toronto Public Library announced that Maggie Helwig’s Toronto novel, Girls Fall Down (Coach House Books, 2008), is the selection for the One Book community read for their annual Keep...
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February 2012 Top Tens
Kim Anderson, Meagan Crewe, Cory Doctorow, Modris Eksteins, Ian Hamilton, Maggie Helwig, Michele Landsberg, Marina Nemat, Andrew Westoll— just a few of the authors whose books were the top-selling...
View ArticleVideo of the Week: Maggie Helwig's Girls Fall Down is Toronto's One Book!
Maggie Helwig's Girls Fall Down (Coach House Books) has been chosen as the 2012 One Book Toronto reading selection.Check out this video from 2009, where Maggie speaks about the book and the city. A...
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