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Ottawa's most beloved literary publisher (2006-2017): posting poems every April for National Poetry Month, and ongoing "six questions" interviews with current/former Ottawa-based writers, https://chaudierebooks.blogspot.com/

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Six Questions interview #235 : Alice G. Waldert Alice G. Waldert is an emerging poet and short story writer. Her poetry has most recently appeared in Poetry Pause , Nixes Mate , and The M...

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Six Questions interview #235 : Alice G. Waldert Alice G. Waldert is an emerging poet and short story writer. Her poetry has most recently appeared in Poetry Pause , Nixes Mate , and The M...

Six Questions interview #235 : Alice G. Waldert
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Six Questions interview #234 : Cora SirΓ© Cora SirΓ© is the author of two books of poetry, a chapbook, two novels, and a collection of short stories. Her poems, fiction, and essays h...

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Six Questions interview #234 : Cora SirΓ© Cora SirΓ© is the author of two books of poetry, a chapbook, two novels, and a collection of short stories. Her poems, fiction, and essays h...

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Six Questions interview #234 : Cora SirΓ© Cora SirΓ© is the author of two books of poetry, a chapbook, two novels, and a collection of short stories. Her poems, fiction, and essays h...

Six Questions interview #234 : Cora SirΓ©
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Six Questions interview #233 : Ann Cavlovic Ann Cavlovic ’s debut novel is Count on Me (Guernica Editions, 2025). Her fiction and creative non-fiction have appeared inΒ  CBC First Pers...

Six Questions interview (via @chaudierebooks.bsky.social) #233 : Ann Cavlovic / @anncavlovic.bsky.social @guernicaeditions.bsky.social ;
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Six Questions interview #233 : Ann Cavlovic Ann Cavlovic ’s debut novel is Count on Me (Guernica Editions, 2025). Her fiction and creative non-fiction have appeared inΒ  CBC First Pers...

Six Questions interview #233 : Ann Cavlovic / @anncavlovic.bsky.social @guernicaeditions.bsky.social ;
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Six Questions interview #227 : Christine Kilfoil Christine Kilfoil is an Ottawa criminal law lawyer and author of dystopian young adult fiction. Christine is a contributor to the Lowertown...

Six Questions interview #227 : Christine Kilfoil
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Six Questions interview #228 : Vishesh Abeyratne Vishesh Abeyratne is a Sri Lankan-Canadian playwright and poet. He has served as playwright-in-residence at the Great Canadian Theatre Comp...

Six Questions interview #228 : Vishesh Abeyratne
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Six Questions interview #232 : Ian Li Ian Li (he/him) is a Chinese-Canadian economist, developer, writer, and poet, who started writing in late 2023 after a lifetime of believ...

Six Questions interview #232 : Ian Li
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Six Questions interview #232 : Ian Li Ian Li (he/him) is a Chinese-Canadian economist, developer, writer, and poet, who started writing in late 2023 after a lifetime of believ...

Six Questions interview (via @chaudierebooks.bsky.social) #232 : Ian Li
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Six Questions interview #232 : Ian Li Ian Li (he/him) is a Chinese-Canadian economist, developer, writer, and poet, who started writing in late 2023 after a lifetime of believ...

Six Questions interview #232 : Ian Li
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Six Questions interview #231 : Laura Hebert Laura Hebert began writing poetry to get the inside out and process the world around her. Her writing, poetic and otherwise, has appeared i...

Six Questions interview #231 : Laura Hebert ; recent honourable mention for the 2025 John Newlove Award,
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Six Questions interview #230 : Bohdana Sereda Bohdana Sereda is a writer residing in Ottawa. Born and raised in Ukraine, she started her creative journey in middle school. Bohdana aims ...

Six Questions interview #230 : Bohdana Sereda
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Six Questions interview #231 : Laura Hebert Laura Hebert began writing poetry to get the inside out and process the world around her. Her writing, poetic and otherwise, has appeared i...

Six Questions interview (via @chaudierebooks.bsky.social ) #231 : Laura Hebert ; recent honourable mention for the 2025 John Newlove Award,
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Six Questions interview #231 : Laura Hebert Laura Hebert began writing poetry to get the inside out and process the world around her. Her writing, poetic and otherwise, has appeared i...

Six Questions interview #231 : Laura Hebert ; recent honourable mention for the 2025 John Newlove Award,
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Six Questions interview #230 : Bohdana Sereda Bohdana Sereda is a writer residing in Ottawa. Born and raised in Ukraine, she started her creative journey in middle school. Bohdana aims ...

Six Questions interview (via @chaudierebooks.bsky.social) #230 : Bohdana Sereda
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Six Questions interview #230 : Bohdana Sereda Bohdana Sereda is a writer residing in Ottawa. Born and raised in Ukraine, she started her creative journey in middle school. Bohdana aims ...

Six Questions interview #230 : Bohdana Sereda
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Six Questions interview #229 : Carter Vance Carter Vance is a writer and poet originally from Cobourg, Ontario, currently resident in Gatineau, Quebec. His work has appeared in such pu...

Six Questions interview #229 : Carter Vance
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Six Questions interview #229 : Carter Vance Carter Vance is a writer and poet originally from Cobourg, Ontario, currently resident in Gatineau, Quebec. His work has appeared in such pu...

Six Questions interview (via @chaudierebooks.bsky.social) #229 : Carter Vance
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Six Questions interview #229 : Carter Vance Carter Vance is a writer and poet originally from Cobourg, Ontario, currently resident in Gatineau, Quebec. His work has appeared in such pu...

Six Questions interview #229 : Carter Vance
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Six Questions interview #228 : Vishesh Abeyratne Vishesh Abeyratne is a Sri Lankan-Canadian playwright and poet. He has served as playwright-in-residence at the Great Canadian Theatre Comp...

Six Questions interview (via @chaudierebooks.bsky.social) #228 : Vishesh Abeyratne
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Six Questions interview #228 : Vishesh Abeyratne Vishesh Abeyratne is a Sri Lankan-Canadian playwright and poet. He has served as playwright-in-residence at the Great Canadian Theatre Comp...

Six Questions interview #228 : Vishesh Abeyratne
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Six Questions interview #227 : Christine Kilfoil Christine Kilfoil is an Ottawa criminal law lawyer and author of dystopian young adult fiction. Christine is a contributor to the Lowertown...

Six Questions interview (via @chaudierebooks.bsky.social) #227 : Christine Kilfoil
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Six Questions interview #227 : Christine Kilfoil Christine Kilfoil is an Ottawa criminal law lawyer and author of dystopian young adult fiction. Christine is a contributor to the Lowertown...

Six Questions interview #227 : Christine Kilfoil
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Six Questions interview #226 : Kevin Shaw Kevin Shaw’s poems have appeared in The Malahat Review , CV2 , The Fiddlehead , Grain , and elsewhere. He won Arc ’s Poem of the Year award...

Six Questions interview #226 : Kevin Shaw / @gooselane.bsky.social @versefest-ottawa.bsky.social ;
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On the city as a setting for writing:

I see Ottawa as a city of convergence: two rivers, two official languages (and many more), Indigenous and colonial histories, diverse neighbourhoods, urban and parkland spaces.

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Six Questions interview #226 : Kevin Shaw Kevin Shaw’s poems have appeared in The Malahat Review , CV2 , The Fiddlehead , Grain , and elsewhere. He won Arc ’s Poem of the Year award...

Six Questions interview (via @chaudierebooks.bsky.social) #226 : Kevin Shaw / @gooselane.bsky.social @versefest-ottawa.bsky.social ;
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Six Questions interview #226 : Kevin Shaw Kevin Shaw’s poems have appeared in The Malahat Review , CV2 , The Fiddlehead , Grain , and elsewhere. He won Arc ’s Poem of the Year award...

Six Questions interview #226 : Kevin Shaw / @gooselane.bsky.social @versefest-ottawa.bsky.social ;
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