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October 02, 2023October 2023 Writer in Residence Peter Counter on Writing After the Unthinkable
Peter Counter was on a perfectly normal family vacation when the unthinkable happened: a stranger shot Counter's father, leaving Counter to drag him, wounded and bleeding, to safety. It was a moment ...
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July 09, 2024Read an Excerpt from Nauetakuan, a silence for a noise by Natasha Kanapé Fontaine
Reconnection and rediscovery are at the heart of the newly translated novel by Innu author, Natasha Kanapé Fontaine, and her poetry and essays have already left an imprint on the literary world in the ...
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April 04, 2018
Dream Space: an introduction to online obsessions for National Poetry Month
I’m writing this post in the middle of a sick day, in the middle of a sick week. I’ve been couchbound for what feels like a decade – my brain is foggy, my voice is shredded, and I’ve watched so ...
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June 11, 2019Confessions of an Uncertain Booklover
All my life, I’ve considered myself to be a booklover. Even my twitter handle has the word ‘literati’ in it (don’t judge me. I was a pretentious undergrad when I came up with it). English was ...
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June 13, 2019Dream Casting Frying Plantain
I know, it's super brave of me to make a post right after the Raptors won the championship (!!!!) but I'm going to do it anyway. The other day I did a talk at the Toronto Public Library (the Annette branch) ...
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June 28, 2019Navigating Microaggressions as a Black Writer in CanLit
Story time! Yesterday evening, I had the pleasure of doing a talk with the wonderful and talented Olive Senior and I was excited because it was held in the same neighbourhood where my protagonist, Kara, ...
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June 30, 2019Behind the Title: "Frying Plantain"
This is my last post for Open Book and I’ve been thinking about how I should end my June tenure as Writer in Residence. I landed on writing about the title of my book. I’ve been asked a few times ...
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October 01, 2010
Agent's Corner: the Author and Agent’s New Best Friend: the Freelance Publicist
Literary Agent Samantha Haywood discusses the benefits of working with a freelance publicist. Writers, readers, Samantha would love to answer your questions. Please post them in the 'Post a comment' section ...
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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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March 13, 2025Read an Excerpt From A Quiet Disappearance by Rabindranath Maharaj
Our featured title today comes from Rabindranath Maharaj, a widely celebrated author who has captured readers' hearts and imaginations for years now with his award-winning work. His latest title in ...