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June 21, 2024Daniel Sarah Karasik Discusses Their Exciting New Work of Queer and Trans Speculative Fiction
Acclaimed and prolific, Daniel Sarah Karasik has already established themselves as an author to watch with interest. They have garnered praise from some of the most exciting writers on the scene, and ...
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June 17, 2024Mentorship: Part II - Author Roundtable
After chatting with Rudrapriya Rathore, the founder and manager of the Flying Books Mentorship Program about the value of having a mentor, I turned to fellow authors to chat about what mentorship has ...
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June 10, 2024Read an Excerpt from Holy Winter by Maria Stepanova, Translated by Sasha Dugdale
A powerful and influential figure in Russia's cosmopolitan literary scene, Maria Stepanova watched this world torn away by Putin, and by the suppression and civil liberties violations that followed. In Holy ...
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June 04, 2024Alicia Elliott Wins the 2024 Amazon First Novel Award
Last night at the Globe and Mail Centre in Toronto, Alicia Elliott won the forty-eighth annual Amazon Canada First Novel Award. The bestselling essayist won for And Then She Fell (Doubleday Canada), ...
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May 10, 2024Amazon First Novel Award 2024 Shortlist Announced
Yesterday, Amazon Canada and The Walrus announced the shortlist for the forty-sixth annual Amazon Canada First Novel Award, which rewards the debut novel judged to be the finest of the year based on ...
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May 09, 2024Jess Taylor Confronts and Then Says Goodbye to the Past in her Compelling Debut Novel
Memories of childhood, and the realities of what remains in the here and now, are twin prospects that everyone must face and contend with in their lives. Flights of imagination and acts of play often ...
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May 01, 2024Read an Excerpt from NORMA, the New Novel by Sarah Mintz
After decades of marriage and domestic responsibility, Norma has lost her husband and gained a freedom that she perhaps isn't quite prepared to handle. She goes all the way in, delving into some of the ...
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March 06, 2024Read an Excerpt From the 10th Anniversary Edition of How You Were Born by Kate Cayley
Ten years ago, Kate Cayley firmly established her place as a leading short story writer with the collection, How You Were Born (Book*hug Press). The book went on to win the Trillium Book Award and was ...
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February 27, 2024Johanna Skibsrud shares the lives and perspectives of women who biologically, physically, or spiritually shaped the course of history, in Medium
How do we truly transmit experience, while remaining open to transmissions from others; physically, biologically, intellectually, spirituallly, or culturally? This is one of the central questions in the ...
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January 17, 2024Read an Excerpt From Balsam Karam's Lyrical, Breathtaking Novel, The Singularity, Translated From Swedish
Widely acclaimed in Sweden, Balsam Karam is an author who has already been recognized for her craft and storytelling, with her latest novel shortlisted for the European Union Prize for Literature, the ...
