An Interview with Nathan Frechette About “Whispers Between Fairies”
I rarely talk about my own work on Speculating Canada, but because I had the opportunity to co-write Whispers Between Fairies (Renaissance Press) with the wonderful Nathan Frechette, I thought this would be a good space to highlight his work. Whispers Between Fairies was written in collaboration with Nathan Frechette. For this collection, each of us would rewrite a fairy tale to give it nuances and play with the ideas represented in it and then we would share them with each other and the anthology formed from these tales. Nathan and I talk about the method of writing we used, the need to rewrite fairy tales, the role of fairy tales, and the importance of creating fairy tales that reflect the complexities of the world around us.
Nathan Caro Fréchette is a queer transgender sequential artist, publisher, and author. He has published over a dozen short stories, both graphic and prose, as well as five novels, three graphic novels, and two works of nonfiction. He has taught creative writing over a decade, and has a degree in Film Studies and another in Sequential Art. He was the founder and director of the French Canadian literary magazine Histoires à Boire Debout, an editor for the French Canadian graphic novel publisher Premières Lignes, and is a co-founder of the Ottawa-based publisher Renaissance. He has been teaching creative writing since 2005, and GMing various table-top RPGs since 1997. He was finalist for a Prix Aurora Award for his design work in 2019, and was the Publisher Guest of Honour at the Conference for Canadian Content in Speculative Art and Fiction in 2022.
Interviewed by Derek Newman-Stille, MA, PhD ABD
