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January 21, 2020Special Feature: Annick Press
The roots of Annick Press extend back to 1975 when Rick Wilks and Anne Millyard founded Books By Kids with the aim of publishing books that children would choose for themselves. The following year, Books ...
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November 25, 2019Special Feature: Book*hug Press
On November 2, 2019, a throng of enthusiastic word nerds gathered at Harbourfront Centre to toast Book*hug Press on its fifteenth anniversary. It was an appropriate venue in which to celebrate, given ...
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March 22, 2017Special Feature: CBC's Ann Jansen Talks Canada Reads' Past, Present, & Future
Ann Jansen is the Senior Producer for CBC Canada Reads, the national, week-long debate-based battle that each year chooses a Canadian book as the best of the best. Each day, panellists engage in unscripted, ...
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March 16, 2017Special Feature: Celebrating 40 Years of Feminist Publishing with Room Magazine
Room magazine (originally titled A Room of One's Own) is one of Canada's leading literary journals. During its 40 years in operation, it has been dedicated to publishing writers and artists who identify ...
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June 02, 2017Special Feature: Coach House Books
One evening every September, a back laneway in Toronto fills with writers, artists, publishers and other bookish types. They gather at the annual Coach House Books Wayzgoose to raise a glass to one of ...
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October 06, 2017Special Feature: Dundurn Press
Words and Photos by Elyse Friedman. In 1972, Kirk Howard was a young man living in Sarnia and teaching Canadian studies. He noticed a dearth of homegrown books to use in his history and literature classes, ...
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April 25, 2017Special Feature: Kate Hilton on the Authors for Indies Road Show
If you love bookstores -- getting lost in the stacks and shelves and feeling the magic of a well-curated shop full of stories -- you won't want to miss Authors for Indies Day. The program, which takes ...
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February 14, 2017Special Feature: Pedlar Press Interviews David White
What defines a family? Is it an arbitrary list of members, or is it the love and commitment that binds people to one another for life? David White didn't expect to find a family when he temporarily ...
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March 06, 2017Special Feature: The RBC Taylor Prize Finalists on Non-Fiction
Today in Toronto, the 2017 RBC Taylor Prize for Non-Fiction will be presented to one of five shortlisted authors. This year's list is focused on personal stories, with memoirs from a Holocaust survivor, ...
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May 25, 2016Special Feature! Pedlar Press' Beth Follett Interviews Anne Fleming
Anne Fleming has worked for CBC Television, The Georgia Straight, and taught creative writing at British Columbia's best universities. Both a poet and prose writer, Anne's previous books include Pool ...
