Personal Canons

I want to celebrate — and invite my readers to celebrate — the works that shaped us for the better. The bits of Personal Canon that showed us what genre fiction is capable of, what it can be, who it can welcome. I want to know what you all read when you were young. I want to know who made you into the reader and writer you are today. Personal Canons ran from August through December 2021.
Dec
09

Personal Canons: On Endings

A reflection
5 min read
Dec
03

Personal Canons: Drinking from a Poisoned Well

A guest feature by DongWon Song
7 min read
Dec
01

Personal Canons: The Last Unicorn

A Guest Feature by David Minerva Clover
4 min read
Nov
19

Personal Canons: Lloyd Alexander

A Guest Feature by Suzanne Walker
6 min read
Nov
17

Personal Canons: All the Birds in the Sky

I had an informal rule for myself, at the start of this series. The rule was that I would focus
4 min read
Nov
13

Personal Canons: Dragon Rider

A Guest feature by Elisabeth Moore
4 min read
Nov
09

Personal Canons: Dragon Ball

A Guest Feature by John Wiswell
4 min read
Oct
29

Personal Canons: The Three Fat Men

A Guest Feature by Marina Berlin
6 min read
Oct
21

Personal Canons: Jules Verne

A Guest Feature by Anna Martino
5 min read
Oct
16

Personal Canons: Ender's Game

A Guest Feature by Ty Schalter
5 min read