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March 05, 2018Contest! Win a Women's History Month Prize Pack from Between the Lines!
This Thursday, March 8, is International Women's Day. March is Women's History Month. To celebrate all our fearless women and women-identifying friends, and their struggles and achievements, we want to ...
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June 02, 2016The Proust Questionnaire, with Sofia Banzhaf
Sofia Banzhaf's Pony Castle (Metatron) was the winner of the 2015 Metatron Prize and was selected by Amazon.ca and published a Kindle Single in November 2015. It has garnered praise from the likes of ...
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March 24, 2017The ROM Dives into Publishing with The Day the Ocean Disappeared
The Royal Ontario Museum's new exhibition Out of the Depths: The Blue Whale Story picks up after a tragic event that captured the country's attention in 2014: Nine rare blue whales became trapped ...
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March 20, 2017
What I Wish Someone Had Told Me about Becoming a Writer #3: Russell Smith
Russell Smith is most recently the author of Confidence, but has written a total of ten books, and is a regular arts columnist for The Globe & Mail. Here's what he had to say for the Q&A series.What ...
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April 04, 2017Kids Can Press wins Bologna Prize for the Best Children’s Publisher of the Year, North America
Toronto-based children’s book publisher, Kids Can Press, has been named Children’s Publisher of the Year in North America at the annual Bologna Children’s Book Fair.The honour was awarded to Kids ...
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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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January 16, 2020League of Canadian Poets Announces Theme, Event Information for National Poetry Month 2020
We're getting closer to April, which also means we're getting closer to National Poetry Month!The League of Canadian Poets have formally announced that this year's theme will be "A World of Poetry". Organizers ...
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April 09, 2019In Poetry, Some Assembly is Required!
A poem becomes a self-organizing model of the media and a mind’s neural networks.Each new electronic/digital medium through which we communicate has become a critical new partner in the evolution in ...
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March 26, 2019CBC Canada Reads 2019: Diverging Votes at the Halfway Mark
Today was Day Two (of four) at CBC Canada Reads and the debates were intense but marked by a generosity amongst the panelists towards each other's chosen books.Joe Zee was the competition's first free ...
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November 04, 2019
David Chariandy, Dionne Brand Honoured at Toronto Book Garden Ceremony
Celebration was in the air Saturday as Toronto Book Award recipients David Chariandy and Dionne Brand watched the unveiling of their engraved pavers at the Toronto Book Garden, joined by Councillor Joe ...
