CBC

Still Here: Meet the team behind a project documenting Black New Brunswick history

Read on CBC News. An article by Aniekan Etuhube and Sam Farley | CBC News (July 27, 2026) This article looks at the “Still Here” initiative, led by poet Thandiwe McCarthy, historian Mary McCarthy, and [...]

ArticleEN27 juillet 2026
CBC

Still Here: Black New Brunswick families share their stories

Read on CBC News. An article by Clare MacKenzie and Aniekan Etuhube | CBC News (July 23, 2026) “This Still Here initiative was a project that started in my soul when I was looking for [...]

ArticleEN23 juillet 2026
Thandiwe McCarthy

Conversation as Monument: A Frye Festival 2026 Puzzle Piece on Women Among Monuments

Notes on Kasia Van Schaik's Women Among Monuments author talk, Black erasure, and the trouble with bronze. [...]

ArticleEN1 mai 2026
CBC

Moncton’s Frye Festival for writers, artists is officially underway

Listen on CBC. Information Morning – Moncton | CBC (30 avril 2026) [11 min.] Thandiwe McCarthy and Jon Claytor were at Information Morning to talk about their residences at the Frye Festival, the 2026 festival [...]

AudioEN30 avril 2026
Thandiwe McCarthy

The Frye Festival Check In: Bindu Suresh

The person I’m checking in with today is Bindu Suresh who is the author of the novella “26 knots” (Invisible 2019). She is a former journalist who has two degrees, written hundreds of articles and is currently a full time Pediatrician. I was able to catch her for a phone call to chat about writing life and what inspired her…

ArticleEN11 avril 2026
Thandiwe McCarthy

The Frye Festival Check In: Madhur Anand

The author I’m checking in with today is Madhur Anand whose first book of creative non-fiction “This Red Line Goes Straight to Your Heart” (Strange Light 2020) won the Governor General’s literary award for non-fiction. Her poetry books, “A New Index for Predicting Catastrophes” ( McClelland & Stewart 2015) and “Parasitic Oscillations (McClelland &  Stewart 2022) were both finalists for…

ArticleEN9 avril 2026
Élise Pelletier (dir.)

Pleins feux sur la 27e édition du Festival Frye

Cette année encore, la campagne des correspondant·es du Festival Frye revient avec force et entrain ! Au fil des semaines qui nous séparent de l'ouverture du Festival, puis pendant les 10 jours d'activités prévues au programme, découvrez les auteur·trices invité·es et leurs livres à travers les yeux, les mots et le coup de crayon de nos dix correspondant·es. Pour cette…

DossierBIL2 mars 2026
Élise Pelletier (dir.)

En direct de la 26e édition du Festival Frye

Lors de la 26e édition du Festival Frye, les correspondant·es Gabriel Robichaud, Stephanie Domet, Thandiwe McCarthy, Sébastien Lord-Émard, Jon Claytor, Céleste Godin, Drew Lavigne et Caroline Bélisle nous ont fait part de leurs découvertes littéraires et de leurs échanges avec les auteur·rices invité·es de la pléaide. [...]

DossierBIL5 mai 2025
CBC

Authors, poets, scholars and DJs take over Moncton venues as the 26th Frye Festival unfolds

Listen here on CBC. Thandiwe McCarthy and Jon Claytor on Information Morning Moncton | CBC Radio One (April 30, 2025) [15 min.] Thandiwe McCarthy is a spoken word poet, writer and public speaker. Jon Claytor [...]

AudioEN30 avril 2025
Thandiwe McCarthy

The Frye Festival Check In: Emma Donoghue

The person I’m checking in with today is Emma Donoghue who is an award-winning novelist, screenwriter and playwright. [...]

ArticleEN18 avril 2025
Thandiwe McCarthy

The Frye Festival Check In: Chimwemwe Undi

Chimwemwe Undi, a poet and lawyer, is the Winnipeg Poet Laureate and current Parliamentary Poet of Canada. In this interview, she reflects on storytelling, community, and her writing process. [...]

ArticleEN27 mars 2025
Thandiwe McCarthy

The Frye Festival Check In: Conor Kerr

The person I’m checking in with today is Conor Kerr who is a Metis/Ukrainian writer living in Edmonton. He teaches creative writing as an assistant professor at the university of Alberta. He’ll be in Moncton at the Frye Festival 2025 sharing his book Prairie Edge which was the finalist for the Giller Prize. I was able to catch him for…

ArticleEN20 mars 2025
Thandiwe McCarthy

The One Black Poet · Perfect Vision · Respect · Enough

Thandiwe McCarthy reads his text on stage during Prelude, a public reading featuring new voices of New Brunswick that was held on August 14, 2020 with the support of UNI Financial Corporation.

VidéoEN14 août 2020
Festival Frye (dir.)

Prélude / Prelude (édition 2020)

Le 14 août 2020, six auteur·rices émergent·es du Nouveau-Brunswick ont livré leurs textes sur scène pendant l’événement annuel, Prélude / Prelude du Festival Frye. En contexte de pandémie de COVID-19, les performances des six auteur·rices [...]

DossierBIL14 août 2020