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Food culture champion: Andrew Coppolino
Food writer Andrew Coppolino loves eating and cooking. No big surprise there, but he also likes thinking and talking about where food comes from, how we consume it and how we can make our food culture...
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Words worth hearing from Mandy Brouse
“Books contain the answer to the question ‘What makes us human?’” says the oft-philosophical co-owner of Words Worth Books, Mandy Brouse. “Books are our greatest sources of wisdom about ourselves and...
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Drawing history: Scott Chantler
Award-winning cartoonist, Scott Chantler, is a visual storyteller with a passion for history. “History provides us with a catalogue of interesting human drama, which is all the more compelling because...
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Collaborative art form publisher: Judith Miller
While people might decry the end of the printed book as nigh, writer, multimedia artist, arts champion and publisher, Judith Miller, defies that notion by publishing charming chapbooks featuring...
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Building a citizen library: Gena Meldazy
Waterloo Town Square is an active place these days, with markets, performances and exhibitions. But now there is something interesting you can find there every day: BookCycle. Tucked up against the...
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Teller of stories: Erin Bow
There is a whole world of smart, well-written and compelling young adult fantasy writing beyond the realm of Twilight, and one of the genre’s best writers lives right here in Waterloo Region: the...
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Flirting with the arts: Meg Leslie
Meg Leslie is a Kitchener artist who likes to make things happen. And she is making Flirting with the Arts happen on Sunday, February 9. Flirting with the Arts is a day-long series of intensive...
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All the world’s a stage: Kathleen Sheehy
“Live theatre is a co-creation between the actors and the audience, and when the audience is truly with us, immersed in the moment, hanging onto every word, nothing can beat it,” says veteran actor...
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She’s all write: Carrie Snyder
Carrie Snyder is a literary name many Canadians know. In 2012, she was nominated for the Governor General’s Award for English Fiction (!) for her book The Juliet Stories. And people are pretty excited...
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Writing the story well: Susan Fish
It’s a pretty big month for writer Susan Fish. Her second novel, Ithaca, has just been released and she’s busy planning her book launch for October 18, at the Waterloo Public Library. In a slightly...
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Our little library
It’s no secret that I am a book lovin’ gal. I sit on the Waterloo Public Library Board, I buy books, I borrow books and I mostly certainly read and talk about books. And now me and my family can …...
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Writing the sweet life: Tasneem Jamal
I recently met writer and former Globe and Mail editor, Tasneem Jamal, at the Arts Awards Waterloo Region. She was nominated in the writer category, and I was nominated in the ‘other’ category, for...
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Publishing Canadian writers: Pamela Mulloy
What does an award-winning writer do when she is not writing? This one helps other writers get published. Meet Pamela Mulloy, the editor of The New Quarterly (TNQ), an award-winning, literary magazine...
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Oh, the conversations I’ve had
For nearly four and half years, I have interviewed, laughed with, learned from, been inspired by and written about more than 70 artists and culture makers in Waterloo Region. I have chatted with people...
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