Embracing the Gonzo Moments: An Interview with Eden Robinson

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On December 5, 2018

In case you haven’t heard of Eden Robinson (but really, where have you been), she is an award-winning Haisla and Heiltsuk author of beloved books such as Monkey Beach, Traplines, and more recently, the Trickster series—a literary urban fantasy trilogy beginning with the Giller-shortlisted Son of a Trickster. The sequel, Trickster Drift, shortlisted for the 2018 Sunburst […]

Writing the Unsaid and Forgotten: An Interview with David Demchuk

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On November 28, 2018

Playwright turned author David Demchuk hit it out of the park with his debut horror novel, The Bone Mother. Published in 2017, the novel garnered a lot of praise from readers and critics alike. It was the first horror novel to be nominated for the Scotiabank Giller Prize. More recently, The Bone Mother won the 2018 Sunburst Award […]

Saving the Future By Stealing From the Past: Gods, Monsters and the Lucky Peach by Kelly Robson

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On November 22, 2018

Reviewed by Rhonda Dynes If you follow me on Twitter, you’ll know I just ate my first grapefruit the other day. As it happens,Toronto author Kelly Robson’s debut speculative fiction novella, Gods, Monsters, and the Lucky Peach, is just as delectable. It’s 2267 and Minh is an 83-year-old “post-disaster” plague baby. Minh represents a dying […]

Graphic Fiction and Cultural Inheritance: Float by Janice Liu

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On November 19, 2018

Graphic fiction occupies that elusive, in-between space in the imagination where story meets art. Often, it becomes a perfect portal into the speculative. Realism can easily slip into the surreal, via art, panel by panel. This is certainly true in “Float” by Janice Liu, which appears in Augur‘s issue 1.3. In “Float,” Essie encounters a […]

An Interview with Davian Aw

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On November 14, 2018

Since this week we’re celebrating three-issues-worth of Augur Magazine, we caught up with one of our authors from Issue 1.1 to chat about writing grief in fiction, his favourite writing project and his #1 advice to writers on submission. Davian Aw is a Rhysling Award nominee whose fiction and poetry have appeared in Mythic Delirium, […]