The best-written Canadian work of fiction of the century

Booker Prize winner Samantha Harvey writes for Auraist on prose style: 'All writers walk around in a huff thinking their work deserves more respect.'

'Sometimes you want to let yourself vamp for the cheap seats': Cally Fiedorek on prose style

'I have been a proud advocate of literary scuff': Travis Jeppesen on messing around with style

'There’s a fear of great writing, of reaching for it, of calling it that': Eleanor Anstruther on prose style

'I only ever let something go when I'm at the point of barely being able to see straight anymore'

A masterclass on prose style by Christopher Cokinos

'Dropping in this semicolon is the T-Rex stomping on the landscape'

‘The real choice is between being interestingly musical and boringly musical’: Francis Spufford on prose style

'Certain rhythms, certain cores of sentences, come to you like dreams'

'How much elation I got out of savage and precise wit!'

'In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed algorithm is king.'