by inannaadmin | Feb 10, 2022 | Uncategorized
The COVID-19 pandemic has largely forced authors to put tradition aside when it comes to promoting their books, and find creative and innovative ways to get the attention of readers. Bookstore customers sitting on folding chairs, clutching cups of punch while the...
by inannaadmin | Jan 25, 2022 | Uncategorized
49th Shelf Browses Books in Death Like the figure she describes in her ekphrastic poem “Clotho” as “Ensnared in long tentacles of hair, skeletal, toothless, chiseled in white marble…” Martonfi’s The Tempest has hewn her own spare...
by inannaadmin | Jan 10, 2022 | Uncategorized
A match made in heaven! If ever two women were meant to collaborate on a high-stakes political thriller, it is Hillary Rodham Clinton, former U.S. Secretary of State, and Louise Penny, best-selling Canadian author of crime fiction. Drawing on their areas of expertise,...
by inannaadmin | Sep 27, 2021 | Uncategorized
Ciuri ciuri Ciuri, ciuri, ciuri di tuttu l’annu l’amuri ca mi dasti ti lu tornu. Ciuri, ciuri, ciuri di tuttu l’annu l’amuri ca mi dasti ti lu tornu. Flower, flowers Flower, flowers, flowers all the year The love you gave me I give you back...
by inannaadmin | Jun 1, 2021 | Uncategorized
When I began to write Memory’s Shadow, my second novel, I knew the story had to be set in St. Louis. As the old adage goes: ‘Write what you know.’ Although I have not lived in Missouri for decades, St. Louis is my birthplace and the site of my fondest childhood...
by inannaadmin | Apr 27, 2021 | Uncategorized
With the slow rollout of COVID-19 vaccines, ’vaccine nationalism’ is only slightly more rife than the calls against it. The focus on ‘vaccine nationalism’ by critical thinkers and activists around the world misses some key lessons of the pandemic elaborated in my...
by inannaadmin | Apr 1, 2021 | Uncategorized
April 1, 2021 Inanna Publications/Canadian Woman Studies-les cahiers de la femme will not participate as an exhibitor at Congress 2021. We stand in solidarity with the Black Canadian Studies Association (BCSA). We share their profound concerns about the racial...
by inannaadmin | Mar 26, 2021 | Uncategorized
Until recently, modern western democracies have excluded women from political leadership and disparaged their ability to lead, as if there is something contradictory in being female and a leader. Women who do achieve positions of leadership face misogynist media...
by inannaadmin | Mar 10, 2021 | Uncategorized
With the purpose of providing collaborative spaces for writers and artists, Anubha Mehta’s two website blogs are becoming extremely popular. There is no fee for submission, and anyone can submit within the guidelines. Blog: Tell-Tale : Welcomes diverse, everyday...
by inannaadmin | Mar 3, 2021 | Uncategorized
I arrived in Canada as a new immigrant in the 1980s, and soon began my life by learning about the education system and planning my options. Whenever I had free time, I would look for people who might be the Native peoples of this land that I had learned about in my...
