The Town Crier

The Town Crier operated as a hub for criticism and commentary, connecting a community of writers, readers, and commentators through social media, and focusing on the interplay of literary opinion in and around the city of Toronto until its closure in February 2021.

• The Writer and the Kindle

  By Patrick Roesle | October 2, 2015

  Patrick Roesle discusses post-literate culture, Kindle, Steve Jobs, Lee Steigel, John Barth, Samus Aran, Marshall McLuhan, and Nikkitha Bakshani

• Digging Up Non-Fiction

  By Amanda Leduc | September 30, 2015

  Amanda Leduc sums up editing Non-Fiction Month, working for Big Truths and The Puritan, publishing Liz Windhorst Harmer, Cindy Matthews, and many others

• Puerto del Sol Announces First Digital Issue

  By Puerto del Sol | September 28, 2015

  Puerto del Sol, after 51 years of publication, announces its first digital issue and calls for submissions, both open and for its Black Voices Series

• Learning the Language of Creative Non-Fiction

  By Kim McCullough | September 25, 2015

  Kim McCullough learns the languages of Michel de Montaigne, French and essay, in her journey from French as a Second Language at Université Laval to UBC CW

• Lead the Hoarse to Water and Give ’em a Stiff Drink

  By Eufemia Fantetti | September 23, 2015

  Creative Non-Fiction 458 as per Eufemia Fantetti, with nods to Gertrude Stein, George Bernard Shaw, Kilmainham Prison, and Stoicism

• On Writing Vulnerability

  By Trevor Corkum | September 21, 2015

  Trevor Corkum on truth, vulnerability, Joan Didion, Rebecca Solnit, Teju Cole, Toni Morrison, Foucault, and Annie Dillard.

• Carpenter Gothic and the Essay

  By Angela Palm | September 18, 2015

  Angela Palm compares the essay to Carpenter Gothic on a trip to Austin, Texas to visit Virginia Woolf’s suicide note

• CALYX Journal Announces Prose Contest

  By CALYX Journal | September 17, 2015

  CALYX Journal announces Margarita Donnelly Prize for Prose Writing, winners published alongside Barbara Kingsolver, Julia Alvarez, Sandra Cisneros

• Lucy Grealy and True Chutzpah

  By Amanda Leduc | September 16, 2015

  Amanda Leduc on chutzpah, creative non-fiction, Lucy Grealy, Maggie Nelson, and reading in a Minneapolis bathtub at a conference on secondary characters

• Julia Zarankin’s Pursuit of the Strange

  By Julia Zarankin | September 14, 2015

  Julia Zarankin argues Victor Shklovsky's defamiliarization is the key to creative non-fiction, relates her adventures and Russian émigré family

• The Trouble with Non-Fiction

  By Teri Vassopoulos | September 11, 2015

  Teri Vlassopoulos on writing about best friends, fiction vs. non-fiction, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Elena Ferrante, Joan Didion, and telling secrets

• Interview: rob mclennan

  By Julienne Isaacs | September 9, 2015

  Julienne Isaacs and rob mclennan discuss the art of the literary review, the “12 or 20 questions” series, Donato Mancini, George Bowering, and Anne Boyer