“My scared voice also asks if it’s truly possible to have a chosen family when, for me at least, almost everyone in it is tied romantically to another, or will be, their sense of family closing in on itself as they couple up and have kids. I feel frustrated with myself for wanting to be …
I’m very honoured to announce that my short story “Peach Baby” made gritLit’s 2024 Writing Contest Longlist! Check out the other longlist authors here.
I received this book from Simon and Schuster Influencer Program in exchange for an honest review. “In your head, and your secret heart, it’s easy to be tough,” (Jones). Four years after Dark Mill South’s Reunion Tour, Jade Daniel’s is back in Proofrock, Idaho. Now a history teacher at her old high school, Jade tries to move …
“‘Not invisible…Because it’s there if you look. You’re just not going to find it in the way our history’s told. Canadian history is white people’s history, and they don’t get that because they don’t know that white is a colour. They think they are invisible…We see them clearly because we have to. And we see …
“Hill House neither sleeps nor dreams. Shrouded within its overgrown lawns and sprawling woodlands, the long shadows of mountains and ancient oaks, Hill House watches. Hill House waits,” (Hand 3). Struggling playwright Holly Sherwin has just received a grant to develop her play, an adaption of The Witch of Edmonton, that may just bring her the success …
“It’s a feeling that comes from inside a person. A brightness certain people possess that makes them unique. Your heart glows especially bright, Kess Pedrock,” (Averling 116). Kess Pedrock’s life is unnatural. Her favourite hobby is looking for megafauna fossils and skeletons, she lives in her family’s Unnatural History Museum, and her best friend is …
I received this book from Playwrights Canada Press in exchange for an honest review. Jamaican Canadian screenwriter Julie is working on her passion project, adapting the beloved To Kill a Mockingbird from the perspective of the Finch family’s Black maid, Calpurnia. But Julie has lived a privileged life. Her father, a successful judge, helped get her a successful literary …
“Sometimes we let our truths rot in darkness to preserve the lies we tell in the light,” (“A Cure for Fear of Screaming,” Varghese 147). Varghese’s debut short story collection Chrysalis has gotten a lot of hype surrounded around it and it is deserved each and every one of them (including the numerous awards it has won). …
I received this book from Simon and Schuster Influencer Program in exchange for an honest review. “That was the thing about families. They knew even the things you wanted to keep secret,” (Sambury). Grieving her mother’s sudden death, Sunny Behre knows she has what it takes to take up her role as leader of her family, as her …
“Maybe I don’t wanna fight a dragon. Maybe I wanna be a dragon. I’m going to write a campaign and I’m going to be the Dungeon Master this time. The Dragon Master Dungeon Master,” (Formato 16). Things aren’t going well for Riley Henderson. She has to take the bus to school now, make herself an afterschool …
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