Absolutely thrilled to have won the Danuta Gleed Literary Award from The Writers' Union of Canada. it was an impressive shortlist and I honestly was not expecting this. I had to sit on the information for just under a week until the formal announcememt, which was done as an Instagram Live event. And keeping secrets is absolutely NOT my forte. To celebrate, had a lovely dinner with the Fam Four gang, including Lee Lai who is hot off several awards and high profile noms. Cannon

Frances and I met at a café on Van Horne to gab for a couple of hours. We had a blast and this was the result. BUILDING TRACTION Frances Grace Fyfe When I went to print out these interview questions at Zoubris photocopy in the Mile End, one of the owners recognized Leila Marshy’s name and warned me “she’s trouble.” I brought the questions with me to Caffe della Pace, on the corner of Van Horne and Hutchison, the site of some of the writer/publisher’s previous rabble-rousing.