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November 08, 2016The Dirty Dozen with Katherena Vermette
Katherena Vermette's The Break (House of Anansi Press) was nominated for both the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize and the Governor General's Literary Award this year, a rare feat for a first novel. ...
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May 24, 2024A Discussion of Blasphemy and Other Ancestors: 4 Novellas by Padgett Powell, Darius James, Lee Henderson, & Jean Marc Ah-Sen
"It's the fate that awaits us all," says Jean Marc Ah-Sen of the four novellas in Blasphemy and Other Ancestors (Gordon Hill Press), written by him, Padgett Powell, Darius James, and Lee Henderson, explaining ...
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July 14, 2025Read an Excerpt from The Exclusion Zone, an Atmospheric, Mysterious New Novel by Alexis von Konigslow
Almost exactly a decade after the publication of her exceptional debut novel, Alexis von Konigslow returns with a genre-bending, atmospheric work that thrums with mystery and suspense. In The Exclusion ...
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January 03, 2023How to Get Published in Canada Today: A Conversation with Patricia Westerhof
With three decades of experience teaching creative writing under her belt as well as three acclaimed books, Patricia Westerhof is a very good person to talk to about how to get started (or move forward) ...
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June 09, 2015
On the Benefits of Not Writing (Surfing)
It isn’t (usually) wise to blame other people for things that happen to you, but I blame Dr. Kary Banks Mullis for everything.Dr. Mullis is a Novel Prize-winning biochemist who devised paradigm-shifting ...
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May 06, 2014Guttersnipes: Georgia Webber
TCAF is the Toronto Comic Arts Festival. It is an annual week-long celebration of comics and graphic novels and their creators, featuring readings, interviews, panels, workshops, gallery shows, art installations, ...
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May 12, 2015Writers on TV Survey: Evan Munday
Happy Tuesday! Author and illustrator Evan Munday answers our Writers on TV survey, in which I ask Toronto authors, editors, agents and others to tell us a bit about their personal reading and viewing ...
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September 10, 2021What Big Open Spaces Taught Me About Finishing a Draft
Who doesn’t like writing at home, with the comfort of Maltesers, a perfect sound setup, and being able to write naked? Writing outside of your comfy space is much harder than it seems.In June this year, ...
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March 14, 2025The Fabulous Edweena is Introduced to the World in Spectacular Fashion in Edwin Dumont's New Picture Book
Many emerging writers out there hold on closely to the dream of being a published author, and it is always inspiring when an artist with a distinct voice and a story to tell achieves that dream. For Edwin ...
