Book of the Month

A conversation with authors Jael Richardson & Amanda Leduc will be posted on the WOTS Toronto YouTube channel on Saturday, February 20!

This past November 2020 we had a chat with Eddy Boudel Tan, author of the brilliantly heart-rending AFTER ELIAS – a story of love lost and found, fears confirmed and overcome, of moving through profound loss.

In August 2020 we chatted with Doreen Vanderstoop, author of the brilliantly heart-rending Watershed, a fictional look at Alberta’s parched-climate future that could be right around the corner.

In July 2020 we invited award winning author Téa Mutonji to interview Eternity Martis on her new memoir “They Said This Would Be Fun”. Below is a lightly-edited (for blog-readability) transcript of their conversation on the WOTS Toronto twitter.

At the end of May we chatted with writer Sarah Kurchak about her new memoir-in-essays I Overcame My Autism And All I Got Was This

We were joined by Hassan Ghedi Santur (@HGSantur) for our April Book of the Month chat, to discuss his latest novel The Youth of God, where

In March we chatted with Anita Kushwaha, author of Secret Lives of Mothers & Daughters a heart-wrenching novel about three interconnected women, the ties that bind

Last week, we chatted with Rebecca Fisseha author of the wonderfully nuanced Daughters of Silence. The book discusses the complications of leaving and returning home

Last week we chatted with Leslie Shimotakahara on her sophomore novel Red Oblivion, a look into one family’s conflicted history during the Chinese Cultural Revolution, set

This December we caught up with Deborah Ellis, author of My Story Starts Here. Deborah Ellis has won the Governor General’s Award, the Ruth Schwartz Award,

The following is a transcript of a twitter thread with @joannevannicola discussing the crafting of and reactions to their memoir All We Knew But Couldn’t