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November 19, 2024Sheung-King, Anthony Oliveira, and Martha Baillie Win Big at the Writers' Trust Awards, and More...
This evening, at a vibrant ceremony that took place in the Glenn Gould Theatre at CBC HQ, the Writers’ Trust of Canada announced the winners of the majority of its major awards for the year, with more than ...
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April 28, 2020Literature in Isolation
“When this is over, remember how important books and movies and television and music and public radio were to your experience and your ability to get through a really hard time.”—Elisabeth de Mariaffi In ...
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June 27, 2023Read an Excerpt from A Hostage by Charlotte Mendel, A Timely Tale of Power, Politics, & Media
When Charlotte is kidnapped by notorious dictator Kassem in Charlotte Mendel's A Hostage (Inanna Publications), she does what she has to in order to maintain sanity, from creating a compartmentalized ...
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August 16, 2024Uma Krishnaswami, Author of Birds on the Brain, Shares Her Writing Wisdom With Open Book!
Acclaimed author Uma Krishnaswami has a great deal of experience as an author, but also as a creative writing instructor. It's a dual-role that many writers actually have throughout their career, and ...
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October 18, 2024Music and Friendship are at the Heart of an Uplifting Middle Grade Novel from Jean Mills
Along with being a prize-winning author, Jean Mills is also a musician and music lover who has found a wonderful way to tie that passion into her latest middle-grade novel. This new book, After the ...
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March 07, 2022Writing From Life
These Are Not the Words is a semi-autobiographical novel.That means there are real people in it who do imaginary things, and imaginary people who do real things. I am not Miranda Billie Taylor, but we ...
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March 15, 2024In Conversation with Author Yewande Daniel-Ayoade and Illustrator Ken Daley
Author Yewande Daniel-Ayoade crafts a unique and uplifting fable in her latest picturebook. It's the story of an eight-year-old girl in a West African village who loses her father, who was the king, ...
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April 10, 2017The FOLD 2017: Talking with Guest Author Scaachi Koul
The Festival of Literary Diversity (The FOLD) is the brainchild of author Jael Richardson, who founded the festival to celebrate diverse voices and stories in Canadian literature. Now in its second year, ...
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December 14, 2016Madeleine Thien on Language, Music, and Asking the Unaskable
2016 has been Madeleine Thien's year. It's not often that the world of writing and publishing can agree so enthusiastically on a writer's achievements, but Thien's breathtaking Do Not Say We Have Nothing (Knopf ...
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November 14, 2024Young Detective Elodie LaRue Hunts for Missing Jewels in Mystery at the Biltmore
With a sterling track record in both writing for young people, and illustrating beloved picturebooks, author Colleen Nelson and illustrator Peggy Collins know how to tell page-turning stories that ...
