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October 31, 2019Meet Chef Shane M. Chartrand & Sample Original, Mouth Watering Recipes from tawaw: Progressive Indigenous Cuisine
In Cree, "tawâw" means "Welcome, there is room". Chef Shane M. Chartrand couldn't have chosen a more appropriate title for his show-stoppingly gorgeous new cookbook - not only in the mouth watering ...
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January 28, 2021Meet Our February 2021 Writer-in-Residence, Acclaimed Writer & Filmmaker Christene A. Browne
Christene A. Browne's powerful novel Philomena (Unloved) (Second Story Press), tells the story of the titular Philomena, from her life as a young girl on the Caribbean Island of Montserrat to her time ...
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January 31, 2022Meet Our February Writer in Residence, Sifton Tracey Anipare, Author of Yume, Her Knockout Debut Fantasy Novel
Yume (Rare Machines/Dundurn Press), the debut novel from Sifton Tracey Anipare, follows Cybelle, a young woman teaching in a Japanese city. Her love for her adopted culture is apparent, motivating her ...
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September 01, 2020Meet Our September Writer-in-Residence, Cary Fagan!
We're thrilled to announce our September writer-in-residence, Cary Fagan!A prolific author of books for both kids and adults, his critically-acclaimed work has earned him accolades such as the Vicky Metcalfe ...
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July 18, 2024Meet the Detective at the Heart of a Gripping Noir Mystery by Alexis Stefanovich-Thomson
As the winner of the 2023 Crime Writers of Canada Best Crime Novella Award, author Alexis Stefanovich-Thomson knows how to grip a reader and draw them into a mystery with a deft literary hand. He moves ...
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October 30, 2025Melanie Dennis Unrau Excavates History and Language in the Poetics of GOOSE
In the exciting new collection, Goose, poet and researcher Melanie Dennis Unrau reimagines the language of industry as poetry, unearthing new meanings from the pages of Northland Trails by S. C. Ells, ...
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April 11, 2024Melanie 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 ...
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July 17, 2017Melinda Vandenbeld Giles's Clara Awake Brings Together Anthropology, Ancient Female Magic, & Exploration
In her novel, Clara Awake (Inanna Publications), Melinda Vandenbeld Giles takes her background as an anthropologist as a foundation, then lets her imagination run wild. Delving into big questions of ...
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August 25, 2020Memoir is Not the Story of Your Life
The funny thing about memoir is that it is not the story of your life.It is true that memoir deals with and includes stories from the author’s life, but therein lies the distinction. For while autobiography ...
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May 03, 2021
Mental Health Awareness for Writers - not such a crazy idea.
The night I started planning my posts for this residency, I dreamed I was at a writers’ festival. A poet told me she wished she could tell stories – I said, ‘Every poem you write tells a story!’ ...
