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March 24, 2017The ROM Dives into Publishing with The Day the Ocean Disappeared
The Royal Ontario Museum's new exhibition Out of the Depths: The Blue Whale Story picks up after a tragic event that captured the country's attention in 2014: Nine rare blue whales became trapped ...
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March 24, 2017How to Feel, What to Eat
I just got a latte at Starbucks. My drink took a long time. While I waited I eavesdropped on a good chunk of a date, between a man and a woman, taking place at a table near the pick-up station. I believe ...
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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 20, 2017
What I Wish Someone Had Told Me About Being a Writer #4: Daniel Scott Tysdal
Daniel Scott Tysdal is a poet, filmmaker and professor of creative writing. His books are Fauxccassional Poems (Icehouse, 2015) The Mourner’s Book of Albums (Tightrope 2010) and Predicting the Next ...
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March 20, 2017
What I Wish Someone Had Told Me about Becoming a Writer #3: Russell Smith
Russell Smith is most recently the author of Confidence, but has written a total of ten books, and is a regular arts columnist for The Globe & Mail. Here's what he had to say for the Q&A series.What ...
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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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March 15, 2017On Writing, with Rita Wong
Water has captured countless writers' imagination, appearing as subject, image, and metaphor in every genre of writing, but with climate change and pollution, our collective relationship to water is changing.Now ...
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March 15, 2017Open History - Don Mills: From Forests and Farms to Forces of Change
Our Open History series continues with Don Mills: From Forests and Farms to Forces of Change, from Dundurn Press.Read on after the following description for a Q & A with the author.Don Mills: From ...
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March 14, 2017The WAR Series: Writers as Readers, with Christina DeRoche
Christina DeRoche and Ellie D. Berger are the editors of The Parent Track: Timing, Balance, and Choice in Academia (Wilfrid Laurier University Press), which examines the intersection between parenthood ...
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March 13, 2017
What I Wish Someone Had Told Me About Becoming a Writer #9: Monica Heisey
Some years in the writing life are better than others. A few years ago I was having a bad one. My draft of The Best Kind of People wasn't working out. I wasn't sure it was ever going to be good enough ...
