John Degen: Celebrating Authors, Protecting Creativity

“Art feeds the soul” is true, and it’s also incomplete. When we treat creative work as something above commerce, we end up normalizing unpaid labor, weak bargaining power, and policies that make it harder to build a life as an author. We sit down with John Deegan, CEO of the Writers Union of Canada and chair of the International Authors Forum, to get honest about what it takes to sustain professional cultural work and why the creative economy needs clearer, braver language about money. We di...