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November 19, 2014
With Evan: The Great Unpacking (Part II)
With Evan Munday: The Great Unpacking (Part II)In the second part of my chat with Evan Munday, we consider the politics of niceness The views expressed in the Writer-in-Residence blogs are those held ...
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February 19, 2019
On Burnout
I’ve finished my first book. I’ve done the writing, the rewriting, the editing, more rewriting, the copy editing, the fact checking… I think you get the point. It was a lot of work. But now I’m ...
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August 21, 2018
THREAD! The Role of the Twitter Essay in CanLit
When most people think of Twitter, they think of the short and pithy 280-character messages that the platform is best known for. But perhaps the most interesting content on the social network is shared ...
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November 25, 2014
With Mat Laporte and Paloma: About a Goodness (Part V)
With Mat Laporte and Paloma: About a Goodness (Part V) Paloma left and Mat and I discuss how The Contemporary Poetry Group is a love action, and there's no better way to deal with evil than to make something ...
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November 24, 2014
With Mat Laporte and Paloma: About a Goodness (Part IV)
With Mat Laporte and Paloma: About a Goodness (Part IV) Paloma asks me questions and I respond like a mid-September Virgo. Mat makes an observation which the entire conversation ribbons itself around. ...
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November 20, 2014
With Evan Munday: The Great Unpacking (Part III)
With Evan Munday: The Great Unpacking (Part III)In the third and final installment of my conversation with Evan, we find out what the deal is with him wearing ties all the time, as well as discover how ...
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November 30, 2014
With Jazmine V K Carr
Aisha Sasha John with Jazmine V K Carr on SoundCloudHere I connect with the force that is artist Jazmine V K Carr. Near the end we get sidelined by cigarettes, joined by Marvin and Fiona, two simultaneous ...
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September 20, 2017
2017 Weston Prize shortlist announced: 5 Books vie for $60,000
We are officially into the swing of literary prize season, with the Giller Prize longlist announced earlier this week, the Governor General's Literary Awards announcement around the corner (October 4), ...
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September 19, 2018
Hilary Weston Prize for Nonfiction Releases Memoir-Rich Shortlist
This morning the Writers’ Trust of Canada announced the five finalists for the 2018 Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction, the country's biggest and arguably most influential non-fiction ...
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November 22, 2014
With Mat Laporte and Paloma: About a Goodness (Part I)
With Mat Laporte and Paloma: About a Goodness (Part I) On Halloween afternoon 2014, Mat Laporte and Paloma came to my house, sat on my daybed, and we laughed so loud, fair listeners, that this podcast ...