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July 13, 2017The Writers' Trust of Canada Announces the 2017 Journey Prize Shortlist
Today the Writers’ Trust of Canada and McClelland & Stewart shared the longlist for the 2017 Writers’ Trust of Canada/McClelland & Stewart Journey Prize for best short story by an emerging ...
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September 04, 2019Writers' Trust Announces Journey Prize Finalists
There's something so deeply Canadian about the short story as a form - maybe it's the fact that our first lady of letters, Alice Munro, famously excels at it or simply that its capacity for experimentation, ...
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February 11, 2022Making a skating rink, and other tricks for stepping away from a work-in-progress
On a particularly cold Friday morning, I piled my kids in a car with snow pants and skates and a pile of books and we headed to a cottage rental. We all were desperate for a change of scenery, and I was ...
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January 18, 2016Video of the Week: BookThug Interview Series with Jess Taylor, Our February Writer-in-Residence
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=vCR7pGHOtlMWe're excited to announce that Jess Taylor, whose debut short story collection Pauls (BookThug) has been getting rave reviews, will ...
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June 04, 2017Finding Your Material -- and This Time, Billie Holiday
The question is, how does a writer recognize what is uniquely her material? Save herself from wrong turns, dead ends, dead writing?The subject has always been central to me—an obsession—and years ...
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October 08, 2014Shifting Gears
Dear Open Bookers,It’s a pleasure to be this month’s Writer-in-Residence. I look forward to sharing thoughts and ideas with you over the coming weeks!Monday morning, I arrived at the Banff Centre ...
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July 07, 2014Tending Toward Liquid
Habit makes time relative for us. At twenty, the faces surrounding us have no history except in the present of the gaze we turn toward them. So, young adults, old people, and children seem forever framed ...
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May 06, 2019C'mon Baby Girl, Back that Mac Up...
The first time it happened was a regular Saturday morning. I was sitting down to write at my kitchen table in the middle of chaos. The baby had been up three times that night (and would continue this ...
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July 23, 2017handwriting
We live in an age where everything is a click. A click here. A click there. A swipe. A scroll. Another click. We live in an age where everything is fast. We have all of the information that we would ...
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February 10, 2017
The absurdity of literary prizes part 2 of 2
“ I saw a highway of diamonds with nobody on it.”For my most recent book, I had a reviewer who skewered me for quoting Shakespeare, and then citing it in my end notes. Because, everyone who reads ...
