Currents: the Tidewater blog
Cover Story: The Unweaving
vivalogue2025-04-15T11:51:59+00:00The story behind the cover of "The Unweaving" the debut novel by Cheryl Parisien, published October 2024.
Chicken Feet and Gluten Steaks
vivalogue2023-07-06T14:20:44+00:00Food and faith: Darcie Friesen Hossack on growing up Mennonite and Seventh-day Adventist
Deliver Us From Evil
vivalogue2023-04-18T13:58:34+00:00Lynn Duncan shares a disturbing aspect of BC history she discovered while editing Julie Burtinshaw’s Hangman: The true story of Canada’s first official executioner (Tidewater Press, 2022).
Song by David M Wallace “Wednesday’s Child”
vivalogue2023-02-08T06:04:44+00:00Listen now to "Wednesday's Child" written and performed by the author of "The Little Brudders of Miséricorde," David M Wallace.
A Publishing Intern Across the Pond
vivalogue2022-12-05T17:47:18+00:00British intern talks about her experience of working with Tidewater Press and learning about the Canadian publishing industry.
O Say Can(ada) You See
vivalogue2023-12-08T12:21:59+00:00Jimi Hendrix, "Voodoo Chile" and Turtle Island - author and poet Richard Lemm contemplates the Nisga'a Nation's historic legal battle, ancestral homes and the American dream.
Learning to Read Again
vivalogue2022-08-25T13:39:51+00:00On Fête de la Saint-Jean-Baptiste, Montréalais David M. Wallace ponders the challenges of language, secularism and politics in his new home province.
Living in the Shadows of Bullying
vivalogue2022-02-24T08:12:10+00:00At a time when Canadians proclaim that Black lives matter and that systemic racism cannot be tolerated, white gatekeepers are still making calls “on account of darkness.”
“Does he speak English?”
vivalogue2022-05-06T19:30:59+00:00As Asian Heritage Month begins, prejudice and racism in Canadian hockey persists, writes Ian Kennedy, author of On Account of Darkness: Shining Light on Race and Sport.
Darkness Still Exists
vivalogue2022-02-03T13:51:07+00:00At a time when Canadians proclaim that Black lives matter and that systemic racism cannot be tolerated, white gatekeepers are still making calls “on account of darkness.”