Please Don't Interrupt (Paperback)

Please Don't Interrupt comprises short works of nonfiction, fiction, and poetry on the subject of interruption. The anthology promotes excellence in Canadian writing, provides an opportunity to emerging writers, celebrates diversity, and builds community. In Please Don't Interrupt, we hear from writers who have immigrated to Canada from South America, from Africa, from Asia, from Europe, for a host of different reasons. We hear from writers living with debilitating illness, from older writers, from Indigenous writers, from Black writers, from writers who are survivors of trauma, from neurodivergent writers. We hear from writers at different points in their lives and in their writing careers.

Rona Altrows is a fiction writer, essayist, editor, and playwright. She believes literature plays a critical role in the fight for social justice and the advancement of humanism. She has served on an equity task force of her province's writers' guild, as the Calgary Public Library's Author in Residence, and as the Alberta Writer?s Centre Writer in Residence. Her books of short fiction are A Run on Hose, Key in Lock, and At This Juncture. She has edited or co-edited three previous anthologies, including You Look Good for Your Age, an exploration of women, aging, and ageism. Honours she has received include the W.O. Mitchell Book Prize and the Jon Whyte Memorial Essay Award. Uchechukwu Peter Umezurike is an assistant professor in the Department of English, University of Calgary, Canada. His teaching and research interests include African and African Diaspora literatures, postcolonial literatures, gender and sexuality, cultural studies, and creative writing. An award-winning creative writer, Umezurike is the author of literary works such as there?s more (2023), Double Wahala, Double Trouble (2021), Wish Maker (2021), and a co-editor of Wreaths for a Wayfarer (2020).