Alanna Yaraskavitch

Alanna Yaraskavitch is a culture and fiction writer from Ottawa currently living in Montreal. She graduated from Carleton University with a BA Honours in Women’s and Gender Studies in 2017.

As a current master's student, she received a SSHRC grant for her thesis project about the 2023 Hollywood union strikes.

Alanna has written about music, books and film for many publications, including her newsletter, Why’s World, and has self-published a novella, Amy of Suburbia.

Her research interests include feminist media studies, popular culture, fandom and television.

Thesis title: AI Goes to Hollywood: Artificial Intelligence Discourse in the 2023 WGA and SAG-AFTRA Strikes

Works:

Fiction

• Amy of Suburbia: A Novella (August 2022)

Newsletter

• Why’s World (January 2021-Present)

Literary Criticism

• Any Other City by Hazel Jane Plante (Canthius, Spring 2023)
• What We Both Know by Fawn Parker (Canthius, Fall 2022)
• Made-Up: A True Story of Beauty Under Capitalism by Daphné B. (PRISM International, Winter 2022)
• Personal Attention Roleplay by H Felix Chau Bradley (Minola Review, 2021)
• A Dream of a Woman by Casey Plett (Canthius, 2021)
• Vanishing Monuments by John Elizabeth Stintzi (The /t3mz/ Review, 2020)
• Little Blue Encyclopedia (For Vivian) by Hazel Jane Plante (The /t3mz/ Review, 2020)

Film Diaries for In The Mood Magazine

• Sound of Metal (2021)
• Josie and the Pussycats (2021)