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May 01, 2015
Television as the New Novel
One late afternoon many summers ago, I found myself on a sunny balcony with a bunch of writers. Naturally we were talking about television. When one of us admitted she hadn't seen The Wire, I jumped in ...
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April 18, 2016A Few Quick Requests from Your Publisher
from: yourpublisher@pubhouse.comto: an.author@gmail.comsent: 3/22/16 22:10subj: quick favourHi hi,I know your final draft is due in a few months, but wanted to check if it was at all possible to get a ...
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July 31, 2017An Interview with David O’Meara, organizer of the Plan 99 Reading Series
In the Manx Pub, a basement bar on Ottawa’s Elgin St., there’s a slim shelf of books – lots of poetry, but also some prose. The books are often browsed, often borrowed, and often returned. They’re ...
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November 12, 2022
The Marketing Salsa
You’ve finished a book. Congrats! Now, you’ve got a book deal, decided to self-publish or signed with a hybrid publisher (the ‘pay to play’ option, which provides some editorial and marketing ...
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March 13, 2023“Guernica Stands With You" Anna Van Valkenburg on Guernica/PEN International's New Residency for Writers at Risk
In early 2023, Guernica Editions, together with PEN International, launched The Guernica/PEN International Writers' Residency, a unique virtual residency aimed at supporting writers in exile, refugee ...
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June 28, 2023Book Therapy: Big Shadow
“It suddenly felt pointless—no, more damning than that: it was embarrassing—to have devoted the day to him, travelling to the countrystead just to find his books, then imagining myself as the next ...
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March 11, 2024Kim Trainor's New Poetry Collection Gives Readers a Blueprint For Survival
Whether an expression of love or loss, of hope or fear, a collection of poetry can frame the most important happenings of our time and give readers a pathway through them. The poems in A Blueprint For ...
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November 04, 2025Grant Writing 101: The New Canada Council Portal
The Canada Council for the Arts has a new portal and truth be told, it’s going to take us all a while to get used to it, but I’ve gathered up all the questions and frustrations I’ve been hearing ...
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June 02, 2016The Proust Questionnaire, with Sofia Banzhaf
Sofia Banzhaf's Pony Castle (Metatron) was the winner of the 2015 Metatron Prize and was selected by Amazon.ca and published a Kindle Single in November 2015. It has garnered praise from the likes of ...
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October 04, 2016Governor General's Literary Award Nominees Announced with More Good News for Madeleine Thien!
2016 marks the staggering 80th anniversary of the Governor General's Literary Awards. The shortlists, announced today, are interesting ones this year, with the fiction list especially notable for its ...
