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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 new book “The Road Between Us” (Assembly Press 2025) which was long listed for a Giller Prize in 2025. […]

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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 the Trillium Book Award for Poetry. […]

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Frye Festival
En direct de la 26e édition

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. […]

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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 a phone call to ask some questions about life in the literary world as a writer.  […]