Home(s) Creative Nonfiction

In the fall 2018 creative nonfiction supplement, writers share their experiences with the changing definition and challenge of finding home(s).

All in Home(s) Creative Nonfiction

November 18, 2018

That is your choice

I am not screaming, I am the scream.

Camille Lemire

November 17, 2018

To move forward, we have to move back

By the time I turned 18, I had lived in 3 different provinces, 6 different cities, gone to 6 different schools, and occupied more than 7 houses.

Karly Z

November 17, 2018

Finding an unlikely home in first year

The other day, I was asked for directions on campus twice and I knew the answer both times.

Tait Gamble

November 16, 2018

Turtle shell

I hold my home in my turtle shell.

Tina Madani Kia

November 16, 2018

Ink

The whir of a tattoo machine is a homecoming, now — and each tattoo is a pillar of what makes me, me.

Lucy Fox

November 16, 2018

The art of feeling safe when you’re vulnerable

There are no consequences to being emotional, upset, angry, vulnerable in my home.

Jenny Chantrakool

November 16, 2018

The transformation of home

Home use to be a place that once I entered through the door, all worries about school and people slipped off my body like raindrops on Gore-Tex.

Olivia Johnson

November 16, 2018

Deeper version of th colour

Google Maps is quite the tool. Just last week I perused my childhood home noting it was bluer than it’d been.

Fate

November 15, 2018

Practices of belonging

Home takes time to build and rebuild, to find and to treasure, to believe and then to feel.

Beth

November 15, 2018

A hanger or a belt?

I’m home now, I wasn’t before.

November 15, 2018

House rules

My job is not to teach you how to be a house guest.

Julia Burnham

November 15, 2018

A few short weeks before my graduation in May 2016, the wind started blowing a little harder in a different direction, and twenty-foot flames started eating up my town. Trees burned, gas stations exploded, and 70,000 people clamoured to get away.

Pawan Minhas

November 15, 2018

The Divine Alpine

I am made among these peaks.

Tara Osler

November 15, 2018

Lenses of longing

It would be too easy to be uprooted by the mishaps of life if I wasn’t constantly surrounded by an inspiring environment or a place where I felt belonging.

Cecilia Pang

November 15, 2018

Let me come home

how can I daydream about a place that is real.

Sarah Zhao