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The 2024 Griffin Poetry Prize Shortlist Has Been Set

Today, the Griffin Poetry Prize announced its 2024 shortlist. With the previous international and Canadian awards combined into one, the Griffin Prize has become the biggest poetry award in the world, ...

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Danila Botha's New Short Story Collection Makes Us Laugh, Cry, and Feel Less Alone

The best short story writers often show an unmatched precision in their work, finding ways to illuminate truths about the world with economy and elegance. They carefully observe the characters, places, ...

April 12, 2024

Melanie Marttila Shows the Reader How She Moves Through the World in The Art of Floating

Inspired by the natural world and landscapes of northeastern and southwestern Ontario, and by personal, intimate moments in a person's life, Melanie Marttila has written a new collection of poems that ...

April 11, 2024

Adam Pottle Takes Us Behind the Curtain of the World's First Deaf Musical

Searching for more fantasy and escapism in modern theatre, acclaimed author and playwright Adam Pottle paired his love of genre work with the power of music, using the medium as more than just a listening ...

April 10, 2024

Read an Excerpt from Summer in Furnished Rooms by Marc Plourde

People and places may come and go in our lives, but their imprint lasts long, and can sometimes linger and evolve in peculiar and interesting ways. In the new collection Summer in Furnished Rooms (Cormorant ...

April 09, 2024