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March 02, 2017
The WAR Series: Writers as Readers, with Anne Fleming
The Kid thinks it might be a tiny white cloud. The rumours say it's a goat. All we know for sure is there is something up there on the roof of the NYC apartment building where the Kid has just moved with ...
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June 10, 2020
"It's All a Leap of Faith, But the End Result Can Be Beautiful" Rick and Gideon Salutin on the Challenges and Rewards of Writing Their New Book
When Rick Salutin's son Gideon asked one day about the origin of his own name, neither could have predicted the question would spark years of important religious conversation. As the younger Salutin progressed ...
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October 30, 2017
An Interview With Phoebe Wang
“Like jarring a sore bone, you wince, and the poem gasps out of you...” - Phoebe Wang The geography of Phoebe Wang’s Admission Requirements feels like it’s always in a state of flux. The speaker ...
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February 09, 2016
The Lucky Seven Interview, with Shawn Selway
It's difficult to imagine the feeling of being taken from the people you know and love and isolated in a strange and unknown place. Such was the case with the evacuation of over 1,000 Cree and Inuit tuberculosis ...
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June 21, 2022
6 Reasons Why Your Kids’ Book Was Rejected
After working in children’s publishing, sitting on various book selection committees, and judging writing for kids contests for 15+ years, I’ve read a lot of manuscripts. Here are the six most common ...
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April 29, 2009
Ten Questions with Pamela Mordecai
OBT:What was your first publication and where was it published?PM:It was either a poem in my high school paper, or an essay that won a competition and was published in the daily newspaper. I hope it was ...
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September 26, 2024 @ 7:00pm - 8:00pm - Brentwood Library - https://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/detail.jsp?Entt=RDMEVT512146&R=EVT512146
Indigenous Reads
Program Room
Explore some of the Toronto Public Library's top selections for Indigenous reads. Enjoy excerpts from stories and decide on your next read!
Drop-in. No registration required.
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May 26, 2021
"Mysteries and Tensions and Splinters of Awe" Poet Michael Lithgow on Craft, Inspiration, & Great Reads
Behind the facade of comfort or beauty lurk questions and uncertainties — the things we're not only unsure if we know, but if we want to know. Such is the tension of Michael Lithgow's haunting second ...
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October 07, 2021
"That Edge of Freedom" D.M. Bradford on The Ups and Downs of Poetry
D.M. Bradford's hotly anticipated debut poetry collection, Dream of No One But Myself (Brick Books) is a work of stunning creativity and self awareness, delving into family trauma and complications, ...
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November 19, 2018
Some of the Best Books Come With Pictures
A friend of mine once told me that his favourite form of reading is instruction manuals. Seriously. Anything he could get his hands on that went through the process of describing how something worked ...