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April 29, 2024Contest! Enter to Win the Complete "Sometimes I Feel Like" Series by Danielle Daniel
Groundwood Books, one of the most celebrated publishers of books for kids in Canada, is celebrating the publication of the final books in the Sometimes I Feel Like series by Danielle Daniel with an ...
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April 29, 2024In Praise of Literary Magazines
Within the small world of poetry readership in Canada, trade poetry collections are likely more widely read than other forms of publication. But publishing a trade collection of poetry through traditional ...
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April 29, 2024Emily Weedon Writes a Modern Epic in the Debut Novel, Autokrator
Classics and epics are in focus in Emily Weedon's debut novel. Inspired by a broad range of sweeping tales like Ghormenghast, Dune, and even Game of Thrones, as well as the underpinnings of Shakespeare ...
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April 25, 2024Yilin Wang Curates a Crucial Anthology of Sinophone Poetry with The Lantern and the Night Moths
While the work of Tang Dynasty Classical Chinese poets such as Li Bai, Du Fu, and Wang Wei has long been celebrated in China, and throughout the world, there are key texts that add to this tradition that have ...
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April 17, 2024The 2024 Griffin Poetry Prize Shortlist Has Been Set
Today, the Griffin Poetry Prize announced its 2024 shortlist. With the previous international and Canadian awards combined into one, the Griffin Prize has become the biggest poetry award in the world, ...
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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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April 10, 2024Adam Pottle Takes Us Behind the Curtain of the World's First Deaf Musical
Searching for more fantasy and escapism in modern theatre, acclaimed author and playwright Adam Pottle paired his love of genre work with the power of music, using the medium as more than just a listening ...
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April 10, 2024Mentorship: Part I
I’m deep in the weeds on a WIP and have been struggling to figure out what it needs, and what I need to get it to where it needs to be. My writing group is amazing, and I’m so grateful to my beta ...
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April 09, 2024Read an Excerpt from Summer in Furnished Rooms by Marc Plourde
People and places may come and go in our lives, but their imprint lasts long, and can sometimes linger and evolve in peculiar and interesting ways. In the new collection Summer in Furnished Rooms (Cormorant ...
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April 08, 2024Marc Perez Follows the Paths of Strangers and Wanderers in Dayo
Identity, language, and self are all at play in Dayo (Brick Books), the new collection of poetry from Marc Perez. It's a striking debut from the author, and one that explores what it truly means to ...
