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.

• Liz Harmer’s Formless Non-Fiction

  By Liz Harmer | September 7, 2015

  Liz Harmer discusses her quest to begin writing creative non-fiction and the different modes of writing poetry, fiction, and non-fiction

• Caught Up in the Truth

  By Cindy Matthews | September 4, 2015

  Cindy Matthews, book reviewer EVENT Contest 2014 shortlister, discusses the business of making memories into the personal essay

• Mythmaking

  By Amanda Leduc | September 2, 2015

  Amanda Leduc, editor of Big Truths, introduces Creative Non-Fiction Month, discussing memory, mythmaking, Emily Dickinson, Maggie Nelson, and John D’Agata

• Interview: Michael Longley

  By Aoife Walsh | August 31, 2015

  Aoife Walsh talks to Michael Longley, 2015 Griffin Poetry Prize Winner about the poetry in his book, The Stairwell, pairings, death, war poetry, and elegies

• The Oddball Narrators of 21st Century Irish Literature

  By Caitriona Lally | August 28, 2015

  Caitriona Lally on the recession in Ireland and its effects on Irish literature by comparing her own work and that of Mary Costello, Oona Frawley and others

• The “Other” Irish Literary Canon

  By Samuel K Brick | August 26, 2015

  Samuel K Brick discusses The Long Gaze Back, an anthology of Irish women authors edited by Sinéad Gleeson, including Anakana Schofield and Anne Enright

• Tracking Down Jennifer Johnston

  By Jennifer Ryan | August 21, 2015

  Jennifer Ryan on interviewing Jennifer Johnston, the first woman to become a literary giant in Ireland and the author of How Many Miles to Babylon?

• We Americans (of Irish Descent)

  By E Martin Nolan | August 19, 2015

  E Martin Nolan discusses Thomas Lynch, Paul Perry, Toronto's Corktown, the state of Irish-Americanness, and negotiating Ireland

• Interview: Danielle McLaughlin and Andrew Meehan

  By Aoife Walsh | August 17, 2015

  Aoife Walsh talks to Andrew Meehan and Danielle McLaughlin, two past South Circular contributors about Tin House, The Littlest Hobo, Feist, and Kavanagh

• Interview: EM Reapy and Adrian Duncan

  By Aoife Walsh | August 14, 2015

  Aoife Walsh interviews EM Reapy and Adrian Duncan, emerging Irish short story writers, on Marshall McLuhan, Alice Munro, publishing in Ireland, and their current projects

• The Bohemyth Magazine

  By Michael Naghten Shanks | August 12, 2015

  Michael Naghten Shanks of The Bohemyth on startup magazines, The Stinging Fly, wordlegs, Alice Walsh, and digital lit in Ireland

• Tramp Press Editor on Irish Independent Publishing

  By Sarah Davis-Goff | August 10, 2015

  Sarah Davis Goff of Tramp Press on Sara Baume, Belinda McKeon, and the confluence of ballsy publishers and talented writers in Ireland today.