Profile: Rod Clarke, Kim Koch, and The Paper Hound Bookshop
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Local bibliophiles Rod Clarke and Kim Koch tell Keagan Pearlette the story behind The Paper Hound, the bookshop they started together in downtown Vancouver.
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Interview: Jillian Christmas & The Verses Festival of Words
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Jillian Christmas is the Artistic Director of Verses Festival of Words, Canada's largest alternative literary festival. In this interview with SAD Mag, she shares some of her personal experiences with the festival and offers a special sneak peek of what to expect from this year's lineup.
Read MoreInterview: Michael DeForge, Author of Big Kids
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SAD Mag’s Shannon Tien chatted with Michael DeForge about his newest graphic novel Big Kids. The duo cover a lot of ground in this sweet little interview: from teenage growing pains to philosophies of graphic representation to the challenging art of drawing “tree sex”.
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SAD Picks: Incite
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Enjoy SAD Mag's top picks for Incite: a free bi-monthly event series featuring an impressive range of local, Canadian, and international authors.
Read MoreSAD Picks: Podcasts
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Ready to jump on the podcast bandwagon but not sure where to start? Find out why SAD Mag's Liam Siemens loves these three shows.
Read MoreHigh School Fiction: Lardo
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All winter, any time he saw me, Brian would push my head deep into the snowbank, his body pressing against mine, my face buried in the snow, while he whispered, Say you’re a fag. Say it, Lardo. Fat fag.
A new short story by Matthew Walsh in celebration of our upcoming High School issue, with an original illustration by Amelia Garvin.
Read MoreHigh School Poetry: Grammar School
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"Do normal women love/ a man’s/ words/ as much as I/ do?" Questions of teenage love and more in this new poem by Megan Jones, with an original illustration by Amelia Garvin. Look for more high school-themed poetry and fiction as we prepare to launch our 20th edition: High School.
Read MoreHigh School Q&A: Ray Hsu
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Ray Hsu is a published poet and a lecturer at the Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice at the University of British Columbia. SAD Mag’s Katherine Chan interviewed Hsu about starving for art, hypothetical time travel, and of course, our current favorite topic: high school.
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