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January 28, 2025Grant Writing 101: Support Material
When I’m not writing books, I write grants for artists and non-profits and if my inbox is any indication, nothing says the new year like applying for grants! Let’s start 2025 with some grant funding!!!For ...
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February 24, 2025Grant Writing 101: Timelines
You’ve got an idea, you’ve got working title, maybe you’ve even got a beta reader, or a mentor lined up. You’ve got your budget planned out (and know how many days/weeks or hours your project ...
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September 28, 2023Grant writing 101: Writing a budget
Writing a grant budget can be daunting, but I promise it doesn’t have to be! Many writing grants don’t even require budgets (TAC and OAC!), but some grants, including the Canada Council for the Arts ...
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August 26, 2022Grant Writing: Part 2
It’s grant writing season! There are a slew of deadlines coming up and though the process can feel daunting, there is money out there to support writing and we should all be applying!As a professional ...
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May 08, 2015Graphic Novel Month: in the Stacks at the Merril Collection
It might be tucked away on the third floor of the Lillian H Smith Children's library branch of TPL, but the Merril Collection is not for kids. Of the 75,000 items in the science fiction, fantasy and horror ...
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April 01, 2025Green to Grey: An Environmental Anthology is an Eclectic Collection of Fiction and a Call to Action
There have been some excellent anthologies featured on Open Book, and many of those have had wide-ranging themes and focuses, from terrifying campfire tales by acclaimed Indigenous authors to erotic yarns ...
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April 13, 2022Griffin Poetry Prize Announces 2022 Shortlists, with a Second Appearance for Liz Howard
Today the Griffin Poetry Prize announced their international and Canadian shortlists for the 2022 prizes. Notably, Liz Howard makes her second appearance on the Canadian list, with her previous collection, Infinite ...
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April 14, 2021Griffin Prize 2021 Shortlists Announced, With Canadian Nominations for Dandurand, Lubrin, & Saadi
The head honcho of poetry prizes, the Griffin Prizes, announced their international and Canadian shortlists today, and poetry fans are thrilled. On the Canadian side, Joseph Dandurand was nominated ...
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May 20, 2025Griffin Prize Giveaway! Win Two Tickets to this Year's Readings, and a Poetry Prize Pack!
The Griffin Prize awards ceremony is right around the corner, and lucky poetry fans can hear all of the shortlisted authors at the upcoming Griffin Prize Poetry Readings right before the announcement ...
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February 26, 2021Grinding Out a New Novel
Writing a novel is a grind. It’s an arduous, meticulous, and often repetitive process that can take years. There’s the actual typing of words onto the page, and then come the edits and rewrites, which ...
