Interviews with authors of books for children and teens.
Gabrielle is an award winning writer, teacher and designer living in Vancouver, Canada. She writes picture books, middle grade, and YA contemporary and historical novels as Gabrielle Prendergast. Her science fiction and fantasy is published as G.S. Prendergast. … More 5 Questions for Gabrielle Prendergast
Akem is an artist and writer. Her short stories have appeared in Pulp Literature, Polar Borealis, and the Capilano Review. She illustrated Brown Sugar Babe, a picture book published in Feb 2020 that received great reviews from Publisher’s Weekly, Kirkus, and Black Nerd Problems. … More 5 Questions for Akem
Jaclyn Desforges is the author of a picture book, Why Are You So Quiet? (Annick Press, 2020), and a forthcoming poetry collection with Palimpsest Press. … More 5 Questions for Jaclyn Desforges
Danny Ramadan is a Syrian-Canadian author and LGBTQ-refugees advocate. … More 5 Questions for Danny Ramadan
Vikki VanSickle is the award-winning author of many children’s books, including the 2018 Red Maple Award winning YA novel The Winnowing and, most recently, the picture book Teddy Bear of the Year. … More 5 Questions for Vikki VanSickle
Uzma Jalaluddin is a teacher and writer based in Toronto, Canada. Her debut novel, Ayesha at Last, is a modern-day Muslim Pride and Prejudice and earned starred reviews from Publishers Weekly, Booklist, Library Journal and Kirkus. … More 5 Questions for Uzma Jalaluddin
Interview by Valeria De La Vega
Kyo Maclear was born in London, England and moved to Toronto at the age of four. She was raised in a creative household, her British father a documentary filmmaker, and her Japanese mother an artist and art dealer. … More 5 Questions for Kyo Maclear
Brittany Luby is an award-winning historian who originates from Treaty #3 in what is now known as northwestern Ontario. Luby believes that ink is a powerful tool. The words we write lay the foundation for our future. Luby writes for social justice and seeks to stimulate public discussion of Indigenous issues through her critical and creative work. … More 5 Questions for Brittany Luby
Lindsay Wong is the bestselling author of The Woo-Woo: How I Survived Ice Hockey, Drug-Raids, Demons, And My Crazy Chinese Family. Her debut memoir was a finalist for the Writers Trust 2018 Hilary Weston Prize, Canada Reads 2019, and the 2019 Hubert Evans Nonfiction Prize. … More 5 Questions for Lindsay Wong
Brooke Carter is a Canadian novelist. Her books include contemporary young adult titles Another Miserable Love Song, Learning Seventeen (a CCBC Best Book for Teens), Lucky Break, The Unbroken Hearts Club (a CCBC Starred Best Book for Teens), and the forthcoming Double or Nothing, all from Orca Book Publishers. … More 5 Questions for Brooke Carter
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