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June 21, 2014Social Media Bare Minimums for Authors
Have a new book coming out? Don't want to self-promote? Too bad. You must do at least these few things if you want to get the book rolling:1. Like it or not, you’re in the business of trying to sell ...
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April 29, 2016On Back and Forth
Much like how poetry and fiction can give perspective on inner dialogue—the stuff of conscious thought—and how it works, interviews can be displays of outer thought—the stuff of collaboration and ...
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November 29, 2023Anthropologist David R. Samson Wins $60,000 Balsillie Prize for Public Policy
Fresh off awarding more than $300,000 in awards just last week, the Writers' Trust announced today more exciting prize news, with the third annual presentation of the Balsillie Prize for Public Policy.This ...
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September 22, 2014Under Surveillance at the Word on the Street, Toronto
Yesterday I participated in a panel called Under Surveillance at the New Narratives Tent, alongside Emily Horne, co-author of The Inspection House: An Impertinent Field Guide to Modern Surveillance (with ...
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June 30, 2022Remembering Steven Heighton and the Vancouver 125 Poetry Conference
One of the jokes I have with myself is that my first exposure to the public world of poetry was so traumatizing that I had no choice but to accommodate what I saw, however subconsciously. Ten years ago, ...
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May 31, 2017
Noor Naga wins RBC Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers
The Writers’ Trust of Canada has announced Noor Naga as the winner of this year’s $10,000 RBC Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers. Naga won the award for her poem “The Mistress and the ...
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June 23, 2021Canisia Lubrin & Valzhyna Mort Awarded 2021 Griffin Poetry Prizes
It is truly Canisia Lubrin's year. Her powerhouse poetry collection, The Dyzgraphxst (McClelland & Stewart Ltd.), has captured her yet another massive honour today: the Canadian Griffin Poetry Prize.The $65,000 ...
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October 26, 2016
Favourite Literary Podcasts
I spent much of the day preparing to record a podcast, the third episode of On the Line: Conversations About Poetry (http://www.therustytoque.com/on-the-line). It’s a podcast designed to operate like ...
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July 03, 2018
Photos from the Griffin Poetry Prize Gala!
It is Canadian poetry's sparkling night and it happens once a year - the Griffin Poetry Prize Gala is a highlight of the literary calendar when poets and poetry lovers alike can don their finest threads ...
