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Charlie Brown, Beowulf, and Raymond Carver: an interview with David Whitton February 9, 2012 Robyn Read teaches Canadian Dystopic Fiction at the University of Calgary. […]

The Reverse Cowgirl. A trailer. September 6, 2011 Sometimes authors do things that make coming back to work after a long weekend just awesome. This

Freehand Books to temporarily suspend acquisitions. August 15, 2011 As many people are aware, conditions in the publishing industry have been disappointing this year. As

Our editor on editing. June 17, 2011 Our editor, Robyn Read, is a pretty rad gal (just ask any of our authors…) She’s kindly agreed

We heart George Murray. April 6, 2011 The always-awesome George Murray has launched a new poetry site/mag/concept, newpoetry.ca. A few words from his first post:

Robyn Read, book hoarder. March 28, 2011 Freehand’s Acquiring Editor, Robyn Read, hoards books. (Seriously, I’ve been to her house…). She tells all to the National

Ray Hsu is our favourite teacher. March 7, 2011 A while back, Macleans ran this article called “Too Asian?” about the enrollement of Asian students

New books! New books! February 8, 2011 It’s official – spring 2011 is going to be awesome. If our socks are anything to go by, our

Happy Holidays! December 23, 3010 Freehand HQ will be closed for a little winter holiday. Make sure you check back here in the new year,

Stuart Ross, promotional wizard. November 25, 2010 The tension. The action. The special effects. Eat your heart out, Michael Bay.

Freehand authors. We love ’em. And so does Canada. October 25, 2010 What a month it’s been at Freehand! We couldn’t be happier for our

Freehand North. September 17, 2010 We recently had the pleasure of visiting Whitehorse to put on a publishing workshop for the lovely folks at the