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September 27, 2016#WritingTips Mondays: Rebecca Solnit – "It Takes Time"
Activist and writer Rebecca Solnit has written a whopping 17 books, in addition to publishing essays in the most prestigious journals and magazines in the world. A Guggenheim Fellow (amongst her many ...
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June 06, 2016#WritingTips Mondays: Sir Andrew Motion on How to be a Successful Poet
Sir Andrew Motion is one of the UK's most influential and acclaimed poets. He served as Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom from 1999 to 2009, and was one of Philip Larkin's literary executors (later ...
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July 25, 2016#WritingTips Mondays: Stephen King on Writing for Yourself First
Of all the books of writing advice floating around out there, Stephen King's On Writing is one of the best loved by writers both emerging and established. While King is best known for his horror novels, ...
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March 28, 202510 Self-Care Tips for Writers
Self-care is more than a long candlelit bath and chocolate—it’s prioritizing your mental, emotional, and physical wellbeing. As someone with anxiety and chronic depression, I’ve learned the hard ...
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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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November 23, 2021
13 Grant Writing Tips
I am not great at a lot of things, but I am great at writing grants. Not my own, particularly, but for others. I fell into grant writing out of necessity—writing my own in my contemporary dancer days, ...
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January 01, 201717 for 2017: Chase Joynt recommends The Best Kind of People
17. The Best Kind of People by Zoe Whittall recommended by Chase JoyntThroughout my tenure as the December Writer-in-Residence, I have been assembling a list of 17 must-read-books for 2017. To accomplish ...
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December 31, 201617 for 2017: Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore recommends For the Children?: Protecting Innocence In A Carceral State
14. For the Children?: Protecting Innocence In A Carceral State by Erica R. Meiners recommended by Mattilda Bernstein SycamoreThroughout my tenure as the December Writer-In-Residence, I will be assembling ...
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December 29, 201617 for 2017: Trish Salah recommends AKA Inendagosekwe
13. AKA Inendagosekwe by Marie Annharte Baker recommended by Trish SalahThroughout 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 05, 201617 for 2017: Vivek Shraya recommends The Mothers
3. The Mothers by Brit Bennett recommended by Vivek Shraya.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 numerically ...
