Bird on a Wire

It’s tempting to look away from my laptop and stare out the north-east facing window of my studio where the muddy Red River bends on its journey to Lake Winnipeg. The pull to the window is especially strong in spring when the water birds return and the river rises, swollen with water from the south, and the trees bud and leaf out, green.

• My Studio

When the fine folks at Turnstone Press asked me to take a look at the “my studio” feature I had written for No Escape from Greatness and see if anything had changed, I figured I would need to make a change or two. That’s how change gets you – it creeps up! Everything is different.

• My Studio

Recently, the dark days of winter were a little brighter as we shared our Hope in Every Book campaign.

We're all eating our feelings these pandemic days. Mrs. Friesen, bake sale maven and intrepid—though sometimes subversive—behind-the-scenes player extraordinaire from Andrew Unger's hit Once Removed has the market cornered on treats and comforts. If anyone could take a run at pandemic baking trends, it would totally be her. So throwing our hat into the holiday baking ring, we're pleased to share a family recipe directly from Mrs. Friesen—er, Andrew Unger, that is...

Paul Pearson reflects on the process of writing his debut collection, Lunatic Engine.

• Quatrain Questions

Dennis Cooley on his two newest poetry collections, The Bestiary and cold-press moon.

• Quatrain Questions

Turnstone published No Escape from Greatness in Fall 2016.

I’m writing this in summer, 2020. Not much has changed in this time period, right?

Only everything.

• Behind the Page

In this edition of UnderCover, we chat with Margruite Krahn about the pattern featured on the cover of Andrew Unger's Once Removed.

• UnderCover