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Interview with Gloria Blizzard

August 28, 2025

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Author Gloria Blizzard, CNFC member, discusses her 2024 book Black Cake, Turtle Soup, and Other Dilemmas (Dundurn Press). Listed in Ms. Magazine‘s July 2024 “Feminist Know-It-All” column and praised by critics for its lyrical prose and insightful exploration of identity, belonging, and the diasporic experience. Blizzard reflects here on the creative process behind her essays in this Q&A with CNFC Chair and President Nancy Dutra. Gloria Blizzard is an award-winning writer and poet, and a Black Canadian woman of multiple…

Keeping The Fire Going – Britt Gillman on the writerly life

February 10, 2025

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Britt Gillman is a writer living in Ontario. Her work has been published in EVENT, The New York Times, Eavesdrop Magazine, kerning and elsewhere. In 2023 & 2024, she won nonfiction prizes with Prism International and EVENT Magazine. She is a member of The Writer’s Union of Canada and the Creative Nonfiction Collective Society. She is working on a book-length manuscript of personal essays. Instagram: @britgillman ~ I live in an old home. Sometimes, it appears in my writing in…

Interview with Adelle Purdham

November 5, 2024

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Adelle Purdham’s new essay collection, I Don’t Do Disability and Other Lies I’ve Told Myself was just released with Durdurn Press and is a powerful and necessary examination of Adelle’s internalized ableism, which is brought to painful light when she find’s out she will be having a baby with Down syndrome. By interogating herself, she encourages us to examine our own prejudices and move beyond them. This book explores the unexamined stories we tell ourselves about ourselves. Adelle Purdham…