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September 27, 2022Giller Prize Shortlist Announced, Including a Debut Novel & Two Nods for Coach House Books
This morning during an event in Toronto which took place, appropriately, at The Jack Rabinovitch Reading Room at the Toronto Reference Library, the Scotiabank Giller Prize announced its 2022 shortlist. ...
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January 29, 2018Adaptation of Groundwood Books' The Breadwinner Nominated for an Academy Award
Deborah Ellis' The Breadwinner (Groundwood Books) has made over $1 million since it was published in 2000. All of those royalties were donated by Ellis to benefit Canadian Women for Women in Afghanistan ...
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August 02, 2016The Lucky Seven Interview, with Liam Card
In Stopgap (Dundurn Press) Liam Card brings his screenwriting background to his second novel, creating a tense, otherworldly pageturner with a wildly creative premise. In Stopgap, Luke Stevenson has been ...
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March 24, 2017
What I Wish Someone Had Told Me About Becoming a Writer #5: Greg Kearney
Greg Kearney is a playwright, novelist , short story writer and humour writer. His latest book, The Desperates, was shortlisted for a LAMBDA, and is a really smart, hilarious and outrageous book. Greg ...
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October 28, 2019New Book Trailer Offers a Peek at the Stunning Illustrations in Nancy Vo's The Ranger
Nancy Vo's The Ranger (Groundwood Books) is the second book in the Crow Stories trilogy (following her acclaimed debut, The Outlaw), and like the first instalment, it showcases the writer/illustrator's ...
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November 27, 2019The Entitled Interview, with Fereshteh Molavi
Fereshteh Molavi's newest book, Thirty Shadow Birds (Inanna Publications), is an exploration of the challenges faced by new immigrants and the deep scars left by a legacy of violence.Fleeing the bloodshed ...
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May 26, 2015Writers on TV Survey: Nancy Jo Cullen
Award-winning short story author and poet Nancy Jo Cullen is next up in our survey series.Name: Nancy Jo CullenRecent work: www.nancyjocullen.net Most recent book is a short story collection: Canary ...
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June 20, 2015
Bravery Through Bestsellers
In a recent cultural comment in The New Yorker, South African-born social anthropologist and writer Ceridwen Dovey investigates whether reading can make us happier. She describes a session with a bibliotherapist ...
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June 08, 2020Sunburst Awards Announce 2020 Longlist
The Sunburst Awards for Excellence in Canadian Literature of the Fantastic have announced their 2020 longlist.Celebrating exceptional speculative fiction writing in the categories of adult, young adult, ...
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March 05, 2021
Writing Time
When it comes to writing, I have a hard time wrapping my head around some of the basics—namely space and time. I find it easy to imagine myself into a character’s head—to project myself into a character’s ...
