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April 15, 2019Contest! Win Prince Edward County Literature from ‘County Reads’ authors!
The County Reads Authors Festival takes place April 25th to 27th, 2019, and features celebrated authors such as Wayne Grady, Debra Komar, Camilla Gibb, Shaughnessy Bishop-Stall, Brian Flack, Cornelia ...
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June 26, 2017Contest! Win Required Feminist YA Summer Reading from Inanna
YA (young adult) books aren't just for young readers - indeed, they tell us as much (and sometimes more) about ourselves as adult novels, honing in a complicated, influential time in a character's life. ...
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September 11, 2017Contest! Win Time Travelling Books from The Word on the Street!
They say the future is friendly and thanks to The Word on the Street, you have the chance to get lost in an array of entertaining futures (and pasts) in our Time Travelling prize pack!The second of our ...
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March 27, 2017Contest! Win Visual Learning Kids' Books from Annick
Infographics are a great way to learn, and children's publisher Annick Press has created a line of visual learning-focused books for young readers, breaking interesting facts about food, energy, water, ...
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June 19, 2018Contest! You Will Shout J'adore for this Prize Pack of Books in Translation from Book*hug!
If you're only reading books originally written in English, you are missing out. Indie powerhouse Book*hug is bringing fantastic stories from other languages to English readers in Canada with their great ...
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October 11, 2016Cordelia Strube wins the 2016 Toronto Book Award for her 10th Novel!
Cordelia Strube has won the 2016 $10,000 Toronto Book Award for her tenth novel, On the Shores of Darkness, There Is Light (ECW Press). Quill & Quire called the book "a masterful blend of comedy ...
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April 17, 2019Creative Life
I was asked to give a keynote address at the launch of the student literary journal, Scarborough Fair at the University of Toronto Scarborough. The theme was “The Creative Life”. As their Writer in ...
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June 23, 2022Cut Road Author Brent van Staalduinen on the Books That Became His "Masterclasses" in Writing
Hamilton author and writing coach Brent van Staalduinen has a long list of honours for his writing, with three novels under his belt and more than a decade of publishing short fiction in some of the ...
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September 28, 2017Cynthia Flood on the Books of Her Life: Lessing, Sewell, Kipling, & More
Whether she is telling a story that stretches over decades or one that is compressed into a matter of hours, Cynthia Flood has a knack for peeling back the surface and delving deep into the human condition. ...
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May 18, 2023D.M. Bradford on Translating Nicholas Dawson's Stunning Poetry Collection, House Within a House
Nicholas Dawson's Désormais, ma demeure (Triptyque, 2020) was received as a powerful and authentic exploration of depression when it was published, and it became one of the most decorated French-language ...
