Fault Lines: Talking with Kristen Millares Young

April 15, 2020

Seattle writer Kristen Millares Young talks about her debut novel Subduction, creating deeply complicated characters, how identity and place are intertwined, the problematic nature of memory, and the need to preserve elders’ stories during a pandemic. Read more

Sarah Neilson

Cascadian Zen: An interview with Jason Wirth

February 7, 2020

Seattle philosopher, writer and Zen priest Jason Wirth talks with Paul Nelson about bioregionalism, paying attention, approaches to the climate crisis, and the spiritual significance of Steller’s jays. Read more

Paul Nelson

Part of My Body: A Conversation with Lidia Yuknavitch

February 5, 2020

Portland based writer Lidia Yuknavitch talks about living in the margins, queerness, how the Northwest landscape influences her work, bodies in motion, and being a book bitch. Read more

Sarah Neilson

Nch’i-Wàna Núsux: The Fight for Yakama Nation Fishing Rights

November 29, 2019

At 7 pm, Tuesday, December 3, join us in the Heritage Theater at the Yakama Nation Cultural Center in Toppenish for a free public talk, photo slideshow, documentary screening, and discussion about Yakama Nation salmon fishing traditions and the civil rights struggle for fishing rights. Read more

Andrew Engelson

Seattle Writers + Artists, December 10

November 25, 2019

Cascadia Magazine is proud to bring together four Seattle-based writers and four Seattle visual artists in an event that crosses genre boundaries on Tues. December 10 at Vermillion in Seattle’s Capitol Hill neighborhood. Read more

Andrew Engelson

Cascadia Magazine’s Evening of Words + Ideas

September 13, 2019

Cascadia Magazine’s Evening of Words & Ideas brings together local journalists, writers, and poets for a lively night of readings and discussion. Join us from 7-8:30 pm, Friday September 13 at The Rendezvous’ Jewelbox Theater in Seattle! Read more

Andrew Engelson

Moving Toward Home: An Interview with Ian Williams

May 24, 2019

Poet and UBC writing instructor Ian Williams talks about his new novel, Reproduction, as well as writing about race in Canada, creating unlikeable characters, and switching from poetry to fiction. Read more

Alison Bate

On an Open Field

February 8, 2019

Portland-based poet and artist Dao Strom combines photos, text, and music in a multimedia exploration through traces of Vietnamese culture and mythology, including the music of folksinger Pham Duy and in images of herself wearing a pair of wings at historic sites in Vietnam. Read more

Dao Strom

An interview with Dao Strom

February 8, 2019

Portland multimedia artist, poet, musician and photographer Dao Strom talks with Cascadia Magazine about the echoes of history in her work, returning to Vietnam, a continual sense of not-belonging, and her new book You Will Always Be Someone from Someplace Else. Read more

Lauren Kershner

Sisterhood is Powerful

January 16, 2019

Portland singer/songwriter Katherine Paul (of Black Belt Eagle Scout) talks about growing up on the Swinomish reservation, the importance of mentors, and how she dealt with painful life changes through her music. Read more

Robert Ham

Great Grinning Things

December 20, 2018

In an essay and review of Nicola Griffith’s novel So Lucky, Spokane-based writer Sharma Shields candidly explores the struggles and surprises of living with multiple sclerosis– a disease that the novel’s narrator, Griffith, and Shields have all been diagnosed with. Read more

Sharma Shields

Creating Spokane

November 20, 2018

Spokane has outgrown its inferiority complex and is keeping artists in Lilac City. The creative scene is blossoming thanks to people like Terrain founders Ginger Ewing and Luke Baumgarten, Spark Central director Brooke Matson, and Alan Chatham, founder of Laboratory. Read more

Carrie Scozzaro

Two Georges: A talk with poetry legends Bowering & Stanley

June 8, 2018

Sitting down with George Bowering, Canada’s first poet laureate, and George Stanley, recipient of the Shelley Memorial Award, Seattle-based poet Paul E. Nelson engages in a lively exchange with two venerated British Columbia poets as these longtime friends banter about the process of creating art. Read more

Paul Nelson

Cascadia Mag’s Almost Summer Reading is June 1!

June 1, 2018

It’s the time of year to order a mojito, relax, and open your mind! To celebrate the arrival of summer, Cascadia Magazine – the Pacific Northwest’s online publication of ideas and culture – is hosting a free evening of readings by writers who’ve published work in the magazine Read more

Andrew Engelson

A poet and scientist listen to the bees

May 25, 2018

The book Listening to the Bees is a collaboration between poet Renée Sarojini Saklikar and renowned biologist and bee expert Mark Winston. In a conversation with poet Rachel Rose, the authors discuss the ways science and poetry can change how we perceive our interactions with the natural world. Read more

Rachel Rose

Laughing through darkness: an interview with Eden Robinson

May 4, 2018

Eden Robinson, a Haisla/Heiltsuk author from British Columbia, talks with poet Rachel Rose about her Trickster series of novels, her goofy sense of humor, forming a writing community among Indigenous writers, and her approach to crafting narrative and finding a compelling narrator. Read more

Rachel Rose

Book review: Lawn Boy

March 30, 2018

Michael Upchurch reviews Seattle-based author Jonathan Evison’s “Lawn Boy,” a novel about a good-hearted young man with two passions: books and garden care. It’s a swift, engaging read with a wry sense of humor that faces a pertinent issue head-on: the inescapable trap of inequality in America. Read more

Michael Upchurch

Book review: theMystery.doc

March 22, 2018

TheMystery.doc is not an easy book. At 1,660 pages, even hauling it around is a challenge. The fragmented narrative jumps between September 11 transcripts, phone conversations with AI bots, and page after page of a code that is never explained. But for the patient and adventurous reader it is worth the effort. Read more

Jim Pollock

Mighty Tieton to the rescue!

February 7, 2018

Seattle art book publisher Ed Marquand helped create a vibrant artisan incubator space called Mighty Tieton in a tiny Yakima Valley town, a place where creative businesses employ bookbinders, printers, and mosaic artists. It all began when a “goat head” thorn gave his bicycle a flat tire… Read more

Shannon O'Leary

The Uranium Files

February 1, 2018

Photographer Dan Hawkins and former Washington poet laureate Kathleen Flenniken witness the toxic legacy of nuclear sites in Washington: Hawkins’ obsolete process involving uranium gives his images a reddish tint; two poems from Flenniken’s collection Plume shed light on radioactivity lingering in the Columbia River. Read more

Dan Hawkins and Kathleen Flenniken

Chief Seattle and The Town That Took his Name: book review

January 31, 2018

Michael Upchurch reviews David Buerge’s book “Chief Seattle and the Town the Took His Name,” a history that rejects simple mythologies and draws a complicated portrait of the man the city of Seattle was named for– as well offering a rich account of Duwamish and Suquamish tribal culture. Read more

Michael Upchurch

Dragon on a leash: an interview with Leni Zumas

January 24, 2018

Portland author Leni Zumas talks about her ambitious new novel, Red Clocks, which imagines a future where abortion is illegal and witches are persecuted. In an interview with Sarah Marshall, Zumas delves into topics ranging from the #MeToo movement to Arctic exploration. Read more

Sarah Marshall