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August 17, 20226 Tips for Effective School Visits
With September fast approaching, it’s time for children’s authors to start thinking about school presentations. School visits can be a great way to connect with your audience, promote your work, and ...
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October 29, 2023Reading the Veil
When it’s going well, writing feels like magic. You sit in front of a blank page, and against all expectation, open a portal to new people, scenarios, settings, and ideas. Through some synthesis of ...
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March 31, 2025Big Books for Little Naturalists Giveaway from Groundwood Books!
Groundwood Books, one of the most respected children's publishers in Canada, is jumping into spring with the release of My Book of Frogs and Toads. They are celebrating the publication of this fantastic ...
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September 18, 2017Giller Prize announces 12 title longlist, including books from 5 independent presses
The Scotiabank Giller Prize, the $100,000 behemoth fiction prize that honours the finest in Canadian prose each year, has announced its 2017 12-title longlist, which includes five books published by independent ...
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June 08, 2014Comfort Food, Comfort Reading, Comfort Movie
My new novel The Oakdale Dinner Club is very food-centric – it’s about a group of suburbanites who get together once a month to eat good food, drink good wine, and do other wicked things.One of the ...
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May 17, 2017Writers’ Trust Announces Finalists for Dayne Ogilvie LGBTQ Emerging Writers Award
This morning, the Writers' Trust of Canada announced the shortlist for the 11th annual Dayne Ogilvie Prize. The award honours emerging writers whose body of work demonstrates great potential and who ...
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September 07, 2016Scotiabank Giller Prize Announces a Powerful Longlist for 2016
The Scotiabank Giller Prize remains as the titan of fiction prizes in Canada, with readers and industry followers alike awaiting the long- and shortlists every year with bated breath.This year's list ...
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January 31, 2017CBC Announces Canada Reads Panellists & Books Line Up, Including Giller Winner Fifteen Dogs!
It's one of the biggest bumps a Canadian book can get: inclusion in CBC's popular battle of the books, Canada Reads.Today the national broadcaster announced their 2017 line up for the competition, in ...
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April 25, 2014
A Poem Can Be About Anything
I came across a cat writing contest on the internet. At first I thought that the poems had to be written by cats and was sure that my Iris Belle had a stanza or two inside her just waiting to creep out ...
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September 30, 2020Personal Stories Dominate the 2020 Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction Shortlist
It's a deeply personal year on the Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction shortlist. With today's announcement from the Writers’ Trust of Canada, we see evidence of a continuing shift in ...
