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Read an Excerpt from Mishka Lavigne's GG-Winning Play, Haven, in Which Two Strangers Connect in an Unexpected Way

In Mishka Lavigne's Haven (Playwrights Canada Press, translated by Neil Blackadder), which won the 2019 Governor General’s Literary Award for Drama in its original French, the audience meets Elsie ...

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Warm Up with a Glimpse into Marie-Andree Gill's Heating the Outdoors, a Collection of Heart-Piercing Micropoems

One of Quebec's most celebrated poets, Marie-Andrée Gill is a member of the Ilnu Nation who engages with the oral storytelling tradition in her award-winning French language work. Also an acclaimed Radio-Canada ...

February 03, 2023

Lucie Pagé on How She Found a Writing Community That Works for Her (and the One That Didn't Work)

The lost in Lucie Pagé's smart, aching, insightful new novel Lost Dogs (Cormorant Books) applies to much more than the missing pit bull whose disappearance kicks off a series of high impact events.From ...

February 02, 2023

Read an Excerpt from February WIR Trynne Delaney's A House Unsettled, a Ghostly Story of Black Queer Love, Family, & Resistance

Trynne Delaney's debut novel, A House Unsettled (Annick Press) is a spectacular young adult tale from the Montreal-based writer; part character study and part haunted house story.When the novel opens, city ...

January 31, 2023

3 Writers Named as 2023 Residents at Writers' Trust Berton House Retreat in Dawson City, Yukon

Writing retreats are always a sought after space for authors, providing focus, isolation, time, and motivation. Canada boasts a number of well-known retreats, including the Banff Centre for Creativity, ...

January 30, 2023

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Read an Excerpt from Mishka Lavigne's GG-Winning Play, Haven, in Which Two Strangers Connect in an Unexpected Way

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Warm Up with a Glimpse into Marie-Andree Gill's Heating the Outdoors, a Collection of Heart-Piercing Micropoems

Lucie Pagé on How She Found a Writing Community That Works for Her (and the One That Didn't Work)

Read an Excerpt from February WIR Trynne Delaney's A House Unsettled, a Ghostly Story of Black Queer Love, Family, & Resistance

3 Writers Named as 2023 Residents at Writers' Trust Berton House Retreat in Dawson City, Yukon

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Latest news and interviews

Read an Excerpt from Mishka Lavigne's GG-Winning Play, Haven, in Which Two Strangers Connect in an Unexpected Way

Warm Up with a Glimpse into Marie-Andree Gill's Heating the Outdoors, a Collection of Heart-Piercing Micropoems

Lucie Pagé on How She Found a Writing Community That Works for Her (and the One That Didn't Work)

Read an Excerpt from February WIR Trynne Delaney's A House Unsettled, a Ghostly Story of Black Queer Love, Family, & Resistance

3 Writers Named as 2023 Residents at Writers' Trust Berton House Retreat in Dawson City, Yukon

Upcoming events

EMWF Book Club: We Spread

EMWF Book Club: Kinauvit?

Book N' Movie

Writer in Residence

Columnists

Writing Goals for 2023

Shake Up Your Writing Routine

Abdulrazak Gurnah and the Rupture of Beauty

Book Therapy: Favourites From My Favourites

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