"Learn how to read your story out loud. Not only will you become a better editor, you'll also be prepared to read in front of an audience. Learn to read slowly and deliberately. Learn to enunciate. Learn to project. A great reading can make mediocre writing sound transcendent; a bad reading can make incredible writing sound awful."

Igpy Kin is a writer, editor and rabblerouser. They are the writer-in-residence at Loft 112 and a wrangler of other writers in other realms. Their short story Not Even a Mouse was shortlisted for the 2018 Howard O'Hagan Award for Short Story. They were a reader for the 2019 CBC Short Story Prize.