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September 20, 20172017 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, 2018Hilary 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, 2014With 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 ...
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July 30, 2018
On Staying Hungry
One night after a reading years ago, before any of us had published a book, I and another writer I know gave a third writer friend a pretty hard time about not wanting to submit stories to magazines. ...
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October 19, 2014
On Writing, with Aisha Sasha John
Aisha Sasha John, our November 2014 writer-in-residence, has been called "a poet of centrifugal energy, of reverberant intimacy" (Michael Nardone).She's back this spring with her second book, the follow ...
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November 08, 2014A Terribly Inexpensive Friend
If you buy a second-hand book, it has a price and some degree of wear. This book was 48 cents.Many books, second-hand books, are crusty. That’s how come some people won’t buy them. People eat pizza ...
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November 30, 2014
With Katrice Dustin: a P. for F. (Part III)
AI_SHA – with Katrice Dustin: a P. for F. (Part III) Can you participate in fashion if you don't have money? Katrice answers. And later I wile out talking about the transformative power of clothes. Some ...
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December 07, 2015At the Desk: Samuel Andreyev
Samuel Andreyev is the author of the poetry collection The Relativistic Empire (BookThug). His other artistic background, as an acclaimed composer and musician, is on display in his second collection, ...
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April 02, 2017
Happy National Poetry Month!
It’s April, so happy National Poetry Month. I’m honoured to be featured as Open Book’s Writers in Residence this month, and I’m looking forward to blogging about writing and books and publishing ...
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September 28, 2023On Motivation
I’m a person who gets called “very prolific” a lot. I won’t get into what I think about that or whether I agree or if I think it’s even remotely good for my mental health or personal relationships. ...
