Tag: ageing

April 12, 2024

An Interview with Melanie Marttila

I had the great opportunity to talk to Canadian poet Melanie Marttila just before the launch of her new poetry collection The Art of Floating. In today’s interview, we discuss speculative poetry, small local writing groups, and writing for a community. We talk about disability, ageing, and neurodiversity. Melanie Marttila (she/her) is an #actuallyaustitic SFF author-in-progress, writing poetry and tales...

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April 3, 2024

An Interview with Lydia M Hawke

In today’s interview of the brilliant Lydia M Hawke, we explore ageing, coming-of-age stories, parents in coming-of-age stories, paranormal fiction, gender and feminism. Lydia gives us some amazing insights into her Crone series. Lydia M. Hawke is an award-winning urban fantasy and paranormal women’s fiction author and a proud crone living just outside of Ottawa. When worlds collide or apocalyptic...

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April 1, 2024

An Interview with Carolyn Charron

I finally get the opportunity to interview Carolyn Charron and we talk about ageing in fiction, disability, historical fiction, pirates, short stories, and so much more. Carolyn Charron is a speculative fiction writer who’s always wanted to be a pirate or a wizard preferably with a dragon companion. Her short stories have appeared Renaissance Press’ Nothing Without Us, an anthology...

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September 6, 2021

Coming of Age at 60

A review of Lydia M Hawke’s Becoming Crone (Michem Publishing, 2021).By Derek Newman-Stille We hear popular, ageist phrases like “you can’t teach an old dog new tricks”, and “past your prime”. In our society, ageing is presumed to be a process of decline, an increase in loss, and not a time of growth or learning. Yet, of course learning never...

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May 6, 2020

Authors in Quarantine – Jay Odjick

With this this series, I am hoping to capture how this cultural moment is affecting our speculative fiction authors and how our authors are surviving during the COVID-19 outbreak Spec Can: What have you been up to during the COVID-19 outbreak? Jay Odjick: Lots of hand washing! Heh! I have mostly been working and working out. Especially now that the...

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October 23, 2019

What About The Ageing Vampire?

What About The Ageing Vampire? A review of Carolyn Charron’s “Knit One, Purl Two” in Nothing Without Us edited by Cait Gordon and Talia C. Johnson (Renaissance, 2019). By Derek Newman-Stille There’s nothing that says ageing like a vampire, yet vampires are often a personification of eternal youth, so they present a conflicted image of age… and simultaneous youth. For...

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May 11, 2019

Flipped Worlds

Flipped Worlds A review of “Flip” (Markosia, Enterprises, 2018) edited by Jack Briglio and featuring work by Derek Kunsken, Wendy Muldon, Eleonora Dalla Rosa, Miguel Jorge, Hugh Rockwood, Alberto Massetti, Marcello Bondi, Francesco Della Santa, and Salvador’s Coppola. By Derek Newman-Stille The comic “Flip” offers a series of flashes through different worlds filled with different possibilities, inviting readers to turn...

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March 11, 2019

Colonialism

Colonialism A review of Drew Hayden Taylor’s “A Culturally Inappropriate Armageddon Part II: Old Men and Old Sayings ” in Take Us to Your Chief And Other Stories (Douglas & McIntyre, 20160. By Derek Newman-Stille Indigenous people have been accustomed to alien invasions and the decimation of land and culture and Drew Hayden Taylor adapts the history of colonialism to...

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December 31, 2018

A Gingerbread House Waiting For An Old Lady

A Gingerbread House Waiting For An Old Lady A review of Kate Heartfield’s “Path Of White Stones” in Over The Rainbow: Folk and Fairy Tales From The Margins (Exile, 2018) By Derek Newman-Stille We like to assume that we own our houses – that we select them and buy them and that they become ours… but don’t we also become...

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December 27, 2018

In The Shadows of Giants

In The Shadows Of Giants A review of Liz Westbrook-Trenholm’s “White Rose, Red Thorns” in Over The Rainbow: Folk and Fairy Tales From The Margins (Exile, 2018). By Derek Newman-Stille Liz Westbrook-Trenholm intertwines multiple fairy tales in her story “White Rose, Red Thorns” while giving complexity to the characters involved. She tells a tale of a giant’s tiny human caretaker...

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