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October 27, 2025Read an Excerpt from THE SEASIDE CAFÉ METROPOLIS, the Highly Anticipated New Novel from Antanas Sileika
In his brilliantly comic and deeply human new novel The Seaside Café Metropolis (Cormorant Books), widely celebrated author Antanas Sileika invites readers into the absurd, tender, and truth-filled ...
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February 05, 2026Read an Excerpt from REBELLIOUS BODIES AND RADICAL ACTS, Edited by Alex Bulmer & Debbie Patterson
Performance takes on new urgency and possibility in Rebellious Bodies and Radical Acts (Coach House Books), an anthology that centres disabled and Deaf artists working at the forefront of contemporary ...
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April 12, 2022Visual Poetry in Whitemud Walking
I’m so happy to announce that today is the release day of my debut collection of poetry: Whitemud Walking. Coach House Books was very generous during the publishing process, allowing me to have a hand ...
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March 17, 2016A Note on the Imagination
To thrive off the imagination, even if it affords only a dull light at the end of the day, is worth it; or not to thrive, even, but to loosely depend upon, keep the fires of imagining alive, in order ...
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March 27, 2018Writers' Trust Announces 2018 Shortlist for Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing
Today the Writers’ Trust of Canada announced the five finalists for the $25,000 Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing. The winner will be announced in Ottawa on May 9, 2018, at the annual ...
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April 29, 2015
"A Place in the Sun"
Jane Gregory’s poem articulates exactly my feeling of being in the late afternoon, late April sun today on April 29, 2015:DOOM / MOODIn the dumb mud of attention, dear Judge, mood was everything, up ...
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February 22, 2021"We’re Opening Ourselves Up to the Community" Dundurn Press Reveals New Logo & A New Mandate
Toronto based independent publisher Dundurn Press has a long and storied history, having published Canadian stories for 49 years, and their logo, inspired by Dundurn Castle, a historic mansion in Hamilton, ...
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July 05, 2021The Word on the Street Offers Up Weekly Streaming Literary Events for an At-Home "WOTS" Experience
The pandemic has created a very different landscape for literary events, and a lot of organizations have responded by evolving in creative ways, finding methods of bringing the buzz and connection of ...
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November 23, 2021Book Therapy: Good Burdens
“You may feel like you’re behind the rest of the world because you haven’t accomplished your to-do list or gotten to inbox zero or have your side hustle rocking like your neighbour next door. (Newsflash, ...
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September 06, 2016"What's Your Story?" Obpo Writing Contest Winners! Part One: Etobicoke
The Ontario Book Publishers Organization's What's Your Story? writing contest asked authors across the city to draw inspiration from their local neighbourhoods, translating the vibrancy, diversity, and ...
