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September 17, 2025Finalists Announced for the 2025 Atwood Gibson Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize
The Writers’ Trust of Canada has revealed the shortlist for the 2025 Atwood Gibson Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize, honouring novels and short story collections that stretch the boundaries of narrative ...
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August 07, 2018An interview with Jaime Forsythe
“How I fit myself into my work is something I’m still figuring out.”Jamie Forsythe’s I Heard Something finds mystery in the common place. Domestic scenes take on a surrealistic quality as the ...
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November 20, 2017Talking to Picture Book Creators - Part One
Admit it: Don’t you just wish you were me sometimes?Because when I recently came across four super picture books—A Bedtime Yarn by Nicola Winstanley, The Walking Bathroom by Shauntay Grant, Federica ...
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July 29, 2025Tim Wynne-Jones and Scot Ritchie in Conversation About Their Brand New Picture Book, King of the Dump
Today we're very excited to feature a new picture book from Tim Wynne-Jones and illustrator Scot Ritchie, two acclaimed and established artists with a long list of unforgettable titles under their belts. ...
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August 29, 2025Ryad Assani-Razaki Reaches for Hope in THE HAND OF IMAN
Dreams are a rare commodity in Ryad Assani-Razaki’s debut novel, now available to English-language readers in a striking translation. Set in an unnamed African country where urban sprawl collides with ...
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September 21, 2018A draft
For years my partner and I lived in a condo, one of the four sides of which was flanked by windows, only one. The world was out there and we were in here, boxed, safe, separate, tucked away in the proscenium. ...
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April 10, 2015
Revision and Sedgwick and Surprise
In my head my posts this month were going to unfold more linearly than they seem currently to be doing. I imagined each post, in advance of writing it (and an advance of writing any of the posts) as a ...
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June 27, 2017The Gods of Promise
Speaking of Cyril Connolly. Even though he isn’t read much anymore, we still remember more than his “pram in the hall” aphorism. But are any of them true?“Whom the Gods wish to destroy, they first ...
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September 03, 2020How To Become That Kind of Bitch (or, One-Night Stands and New Selves)
Before the pandemic, I had a one-night stand with a person I met at a rave, Tyler. The morning after we slept together, I was buttering my toast and he began to ask probing questions about my life and ...
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March 17, 2021Read Two Poems from Bardia Sinaee's Anticipated & Powerful Debut Collection, Intruder
It's hard to believe that Bardia Sinaee doesn't already have a full length collection of poetry out. His chapbooks, widespread publication in prestigious journals, inclusion in multiple editions of Best ...
