The Basics

Dundas, Deborah. “The Year in Review: CanLit Is Dead, Long Live CanLit.” The Star, Dec. 30, 2018. Read Article.

Knight, Chelene. “Diversifying your Contributors in Seven Steps by Chelene Knight.” Magazines Canada, 17 Oct. 2018. Read Article.

Neary, Lynn. “To Achieve Diversity in Publishing, A Difficult Dialogue Beats Silence.” NPR, 20 Aug. 2014. Read Article.

A Deeper Dive 

Ansari, Sadiya. “Diverse from What?’: Dionne Brand on Art for All People.” The Globe and Mail, 27 Sept. 2018. Read Article.

Baker, Jennifer. “When It Comes to Inclusivity in Publishing, Editors Also Play a Role.” Electric Literature, 25 Oct. 2017. Read Article.

Canas, Tania. “Diversity Is a White Word.” ArtsHub, 9 Jan. 2017. Read Article.

Crispin, Jessa. “Publishing’s Diversity Problems, or The Paris Review Was Started by the CIA.” With Alexis Aceves

Garcia. Public Intellectual with Jessa Crispin, open.spotify.com. Read Article (need Spotify account).

Deahl, Rachel. “Why Publishing Is So White.” PublishersWeekly.Com, 11 March 2016. Read Article.

“Diversity: Issues Facing Underrepresented Writers.” National Writers Union,  Read Article.

Elliott, Alicia. “CanLit Is a Raging Dumpster Fire.” Open Book, 7 Sept. 2017. Read Article.

Ho, Jean. “Diversity In Book Publishing Isn’t Just About Writers — Marketing Matters, Too.” NPR.Org, 9 Aug. 2018. Read Article.

Kantor, Emma. “’People of Color in Publishing’: Striving for More Industry Diversity.” Publishers Weekly, 12 Dec. 2017. Read Article.Leduc, Amanda. “Celebrating Diversity by Dismantling CanLit.” CWILA, Read Article.

McGregor, Hannah, et al. Refuse: CanLit in Ruins. Co-Edited by Hannah McGregor, Julie Rak & Erin Wunker. Book*hug Press, 15 Nov. 2018. More Information About Book.

Richardson, Jael. “Diversity In Canadian Literature Is Long Overdue.” Huffington Post. 3 May 2016. Read Article.

Rodan, Galit. “Reflected on the Page.” The Globe & Mail. July 2017. Read Article.

Sookfong Lee, Jen. “Open Letters and Closed Doors: How the Steven Galloway Open Letter Dumpster Fire Forced Me to Acknowledge the Racism and Entitlement at the Heart of CanLit.”  The Humber Literary Review, Read Article.

Zafarris, Jess, interviewer. “Patrice Caldwell on Children’s Literature and Diversity in Publishing.” The Writer’s Digest Podcast with Gabriela Pereira from Writer’s Digest, 8 June 2018. Listen To Podcast.