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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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September 18, 2017Contest! Get Cultured with The Word on the Street!
Do you have many leather-bound books? Does your apartment smell of rich mahogany? If you want to max out on culture, enter our newest contest with The Word on the Street to win books that cover music, ...
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October 04, 2017Gillian Wigmore on Creating Characters from Her Road Not Travelled
Newlyweds arriving in a strange and remote small town makes for a classic, foreboding opener to a story. But Gillian Wigmore's Glory (Invisible Publishing) is like nothing readers have seen before, taking ...
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March 12, 2016Happy Birthday, Jack
I would be beside myself if I didn't take a moment to write a birthday note to the late Jack Kerouac, who was born on this day (March 12, 1922–October 21, 1969) and to whom I owe much praise.Yes of ...
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April 07, 2014
Compression
In Stephanie Bolster’s “A Page from the Wonders of Life on Earth,” the writing is acutely compressed, each word standing in for what in another poet’s hands might take pages. There’s no room ...
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June 24, 2016Marianne Dubuc and Susan Nielsen Win 40th Anniversary Ruth & Sylvia Schwartz Children’s Book Awards
On June 22, the Ontario Arts Council and Ontario Arts Foundation announced the winners of the Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Children’s Book Awards. 2016 marks the 40th anniversary of the awards, which honour ...
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April 06, 2017Guest Column - So I Opened a Bookstore
So I opened a bookstore.Yes, yes, I know – “in this day and age?” “Bookstores are going under!” “What about digital books?” “No one reads paper books anymore!”But I had been reading ...
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September 18, 2016Contest! Grand Prize Non-Fiction Mega Book Package from the Word on the Street
Are you in need of a whole new library? Do you live for fascinating, brilliantly written non-fiction? Then don't miss your chance to win our final, grand prize from The Word On The Street this year — ...
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September 05, 2016Contest! Get Cultured with a Prize Pack of Books from the Word on the Street
On September 25, 2016, The Word On The Street returns to Toronto! To celebrate Toronto's favourite literary event of the year, we're partnering once again with WOTS to spread the word, share the love, ...
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September 09, 2016Contest! Win Fantastic, Mysterious Reads from the Word on the Street!
Everyone needs to a little bit of mystery in life to keep things interesting — but if you're up for a lot of mystery, then you'll want to enter our newest contest in partnership with The Word On The ...
