By Melanie Woods, November 26 2015 —
According to The Big Bang Theory, comic book shops are the kind of place where socially-awkward men gather to pick up the latest Batman or a replica Captain America shield.
This is how … Read the rest
By Liv Ingram, November 17 2015 —
Finding a job can be tedious, soul-crushing work. You scan endless ads that seek highly-motivated individuals more closely resembling robots than actual people. You reduce your personality to a series of buzzwords, write … Read the rest
By Jason Herring, Nov. 3 2015 —
English novelist David Mitchell is an expert at telling stories with different voices. His most popular novel, Cloud Atlas, took six seemingly unrelated short stories occurring across several centuries to create an intricate … Read the rest
By Emilie Medland-Marchen, October 13 2015 —
Canadian author Zsuzsi Gartner has a prolific resume. The University of Calgary graduate’s most recent short story collection, Better Living Through Plastic Explosions, was shortlisted for the 2011 Giller Prize. Her work has … Read the rest
By Jason Herring, October 6 2015 —
The future of NōD Magazine, the University of Calgary’s undergraduate creative writing publication, hung in limbo throughout most of last year. The publication was unable to print any issues over the 2014–15 academic … Read the rest
By Emilie Medland-Marchen, September 10 2015 —
Every school year, an emerging Canadian writer is offered a residence at the University of Calgary as part of the school’s Writer-in-Residence program. This year, the U of C is bringing in poet … Read the rest
By Emilie Medland-Marchen, August 6 2015 —
Seven years ago, I read Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird in my grade eight English class. It was one of the first “classic” novels I read. I related to Scout, the narrator … Read the rest