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May 24, 2017Happy Birthday, Marian Engel!
Today is the eighty-fourth birthday of Marian Engel, or it would be, had the novelist not died of cancer in 1985. Now, instead of a person, she is a name, survived like all people by her family and friends, ...
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December 06, 201617 for 2017: Kate Bornstein recommends Siddhartha
4. Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse recommended by Kate Bornstein Throughout my tenure as the December Writer-In-Residence, I will be assembling a list of 17 must-read-books for 2017. To accomplish this ...
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December 13, 201617 for 2017: Morgan M. Page recommends Small Beauty
6. Small Beauty by jia qing wilson-yang recommended by Morgan M. PageThroughout my tenure as the December Writer-In-Residence, I will be assembling a list of 17 must-read-books for 2017. To accomplish ...
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December 01, 201617 for 2017: Mariko Tamaki recommends The Land of Forgotten Girls
1. The Land of Forgotten Girls by Erin Entrada Kelly recommended by Mariko Tamaki Throughout my tenure as the December Writer-In-Residence, I will be assembling a list of 17 must-read-books for 2017. ...
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November 24, 2016Speaker’s Book Award & Young Authors Award shortlists announced by Hon. Dave Levac
It's an excellent year for Dundurn Press, an independent publishing house in Toronto, on this year's Speaker's Book Award and Young Authors Award shortlists. They cornered an impressive six out of a possible ...
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December 07, 2017RBC Taylor Prize Longlist Announced
After a fiction-focused fall prize season, the focus is back on non-fiction with the announcement of the 2018 RBC Taylor Prize longlist.Notably, included on the list are two of the Weston Prize finalists ...
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March 20, 2018New Series! The Fruitful City Author Helena Moncrieff Talks about the Art & Science of Teaching Writing
Helena Moncrieff's The Fruitful City: The Enduring Power of the Urban Food Forest (ECW Press) delves into issues of urban food through the lens of an overlooked city food source: our fruit trees. Once ...
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May 07, 2018Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Children’s Book Awards Shortlists Announced, including Cherie Dimaline's The Marrow Thieves
The shortlists for the 2018 Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Children’s Book Awards include several high profile Canadian authors, including recent Kirkus Award winner Cherie Dimaline, whose The Marrow Thieves was ...
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September 03, 201912 Title 2019 Scotiabank Giller Prize Longlist Announced
Labour Day has passed and that means it's the beginning of prize season in CanLit. And what better way to kick off an autumn of book award announcements than to start with the biggest of them all? Today ...
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September 27, 2019"Home, Family, and Finding a Place to Belong" The 2019 Shortlists for the Vine Awards for Canadian Jewish Literature
Vine Awards for Canadian Jewish Literature, a unique suite of literary prizes that celebrate Canadian Jewish literature across five different genres, announced their shortlists yesterday. The nominated ...
