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February 12, 2025Tea Gerbeza Challenges Ableist Perceptions of Normalcy in How I Bend Into More
Among the many complex themes in Tea Gerbeza's work, reclaiming disabled identity, disability justice, and disabled and queer joy are just a sampling. These concerns and more find their way onto the ...
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October 31, 2025Read an Excerpt from HAPPINESS HAS A SLIPPERY TAIL by Abla Farhoud (translated by Judith Weisz Woodsworth)
In Happiness Has a Slippery Tail, celebrated Lebanese-Canadian writer Abla Farhoud offers a moving portrait of migration, memory, and resilience through the unforgettable voice of Dounia, a seventy-five-year-old ...
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May 21, 2014Down the Hall: Léonicka Valcius and #Diversecanlit, Part 1
If you're new to the world of Canadian literature – heck, even if you're not – you could be forgiven for thinking it's very … well … white. Not just the authors – the staff of publishing houses, ...
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August 11, 2020Read an Excerpt from Jill Martin Bouteillier's New Memoir From Thistles to Cowpies
Author Jill Martin Bouteillier's new memoir/biography From Thistles to Cowpies (Crossfield Publishing) brings to life the experiences of Canada's earliest immigrants, following them on their sometimes-harrowing ...
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March 07, 2018An interview with Stevie Howell
“All instruments, our own vocal chords, are just us messing around w/airwaves. So, magic." - Stevie HowellThe poetry of Stevie Howell works on the mind like memory recall. “Between all matter exists ...
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October 21, 2015Festival like a Pro at Toronto’s Great Big Literary Party
It’s October, the month when pumpkin fills our bellies, ghouls parade our streets and writers from around the globe flock like moths to the literary-festival flame. In Toronto (and many Ontario locations ...
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July 24, 2014Trash
I have entered middle age. I am overweight, and I live with a little dog and two cats. I have been alone for more than seven years. I keep a journal, as Jenny Craig suggests, about what I eat ...
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May 25, 2017Talking about Poetry with the 2017 RBC Bronwen Wallace Award Nominees
The RBC Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers (administered by the Writers' Trust of Canada) has an all-star list of past winners and nominees, including names like Madeleine Thien, Jeramy Dodds, ...
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January 11, 2017Hearing the Muse
I was always fond of my teachers but one couldn’t help but love Mary di Michele. I realize that my impressions and recollections are fifteen years old but so what? Of all my professors at Concordia, ...
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May 21, 2019"These Poems Attempt the Impossible" The 2019 RBC Bronwen Wallace Award Nominees on Poetry, CanLit & More
The RBC Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers, administered by the Writers' Trust and sponsored by the Royal Bank of Canada, has a downright impressive track record of recognizing remarkably talented ...
