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May 30, 2016#WritingTips Mondays: Toni Morrison on How Plot is Like Melody
Toni Morrison is a writer who needs no introduction. Her epic, revolutionary novels include The Bluest Eye, Sula, and Beloved. In 1993, she was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.The website Open ...
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August 24, 2020RBC Bronwen Wallace Award Announces Fiction and Poetry Finalists
The Writer's Trust of Canada has announced both the fiction and poetry finalists for this year's RBC Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers. The prize celebrates outstanding, unpublished work by ...
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August 25, 2020Writers' Trust Announces Finalists for LGBTQ Emerging Writers Award
Finalists have been revealed for the 2020 Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBTQ Emerging Writers. Now in it's 14th year, the award recognizes an emerging writer from the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, ...
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September 17, 2018Contest! Get Thrills and Chills from The Word on the Street Toronto!
It still feels like summer in Toronto, but that doesn't mean it's too early to get a chill down your spine - especially if you were to curl up with an entire prize pack of thrilling, chilling, can't-put-them-down ...
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November 18, 2019Heather O'Neill Recieves 2019 Writers' Trust Fellowship
Montreal writer Heather O'Neill, author of Wisdom in Nonsense: Invaluable Lessons from my Father (UAP), was the recipient of this year's $50,000 Writers' Trust Fellowship at a gala ceremony on Thursday ...
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July 17, 2017Contest! Win All-Natural Non-Fiction from Fitzhenry & Whiteside!
The natural world is full of wonders. From strange animals to weather phenomena and much more, nature is and endlessly fascinating subject for readers young and old. Now, thanks to Fitzhenry & Whiteside, ...
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June 23, 2016Kevin Hardcastle & Soraya Peerbaye Win 2016 Trillium Book Awards
Open Book is thrilled to announce that our own Kevin Hardcastle, Open Book Toronto's Assistant Editor, has won the $20,000 2016 Trillium Book Award for his debut short fiction collection, Debris (Biblioasis). ...
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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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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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October 22, 2018Contest! Get Spooky with Book*hug Books for Halloween!
If you're the type of person who waits all year for October, this is the contest for you. Just add this incredible prize pack of chilling, dark, and imaginative titles from Book*hug to your candy, scary ...
