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November 01, 2017
Governor General's Literary Awards Winners Announced
The 2017 winners of the dignified elder statesmen of Canadian literary awards, the Governor General's, were announced on Wednesday. The awards were established in 1936 and serve to recognize writers ...
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June 05, 2016
Smoky Garden Songs - a playlist for writing
So much of writing is creating the right mood, the right place. Do you need absolute silence? Do you like a bustling coffee shop?Well, I asked Damian Rogers, whose recent book of poetry Dear Leader blew ...
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May 19, 2016
2016 CBC Shakespeare Selfie Writing Challenge Winners Talk Beyond and Trump
CBC's 2016 Shakespeare Selfie writing challenge asked Canadian students to write a monologue or soliloquy in the style of the Bard about a subject of current social, political, or economic interest. Each ...
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June 11, 2014
Something New: Where to Eat Now
A few weeks ago, the rockin’ and poppin’ newchoir I sing in backed up two of our soloists – triple threat performer Erin Tancock and Hello Canada! Editor-in-chief Alison Eastwood - singing the Nikki ...
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March 30, 2017
Open History - Raising Royalty: 1000 Years of Royal Parenting
Our Open History series continues with Raising Royalty: 1000 Years of Royal Parenting, from Dundurn Press.Read on after the following description for a Q & A with the author.Raising Royalty: 1000 ...
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December 19, 2016
CBC Canada Reads Announces Ali Hassan as Host + Theme and Longlist for 2017
The 2017 iteration of CBC's popular battle of the books, Canada Reads, will be hosted by actor ad comedian Ali Hassan, and will tackle the question "What is the one book Canadians need now?” Last year's ...
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August 09, 2018
City of Toronto announces powerhouse shortlist including David Chariandy's decorated novel Brother
The City of Toronto and Toronto Public Library have announced the five 2018 Toronto Book Awards shortlisted titles. Established by Toronto City Council in 1974, the awards honour books of literary merit ...
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June 12, 2018
Tara Atluri on Writing from "the Interstices of Belonging" in Bangalore's Kaval Bairasandra Neighbourhood
Tara Atluri's Uncommitted Crimes: The Defiance of the Artistic Imagi/nation (Inanna Publications) takes it title from a quote by Theodor Adorno, who said "every work is art is an uncommitted crime". ...
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October 04, 2018
Guernica Editions Celebrates 40 Years of Literary Innovation with New Events, Imprint & Prize
Guernica Editions is one of Canada's oldest, most prestigious independent publishing houses, having steadily published literary fiction, non-fiction, and poetry for a whopping four decades. Their apt ...
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March 18, 2020
"Let's Stop Being Nice. Let's Be Ourselves Instead." Lauren McKeon Tackles Institutional Inequality In Her New Book
Despite optimistic think-pieces to the contrary, the gender-based discrimination women face both in and out of the workplace is still incredibly, depressingly, present. Tasked with having to work much ...