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September 25, 2024The Writers’ Trust Announces the 2024 Finalists for the $60,000 Atwood Gibson Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize
The Writers’ Trust of Canada today announced five finalists for the 2024 Atwood Gibson Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize. The prize annually recognizes the best novel or short story collection by a ...
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September 23, 2024Scandal at the Alphorn Factory Brings 40 Years of Magical Gary Barwin Stories Together in a Definitive Collection
Author to over 30 titles in total, Gary Barwin is a mainstay on the CanLit scene and a renowned short story writer. It will come as no surprise to readers of his work that his catalogue includes a considerable ...
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September 20, 2024Farzana Doctor's New YA Novel is About Surviving Hardship, the Power of Friendship, and Growing Up
Acclaimed author and psychotherapist Farzana Doctor has explored the human condition in-depth through her adult fiction and non-fiction, and now her latest novel is a richly woven work for young adult ...
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September 19, 2024Readers Will Be Enrapt by the Siren Songs in Victoria Mbabazi's Powerful Debut Poetry Collection
With two notable and very promising chapbooks already published, Victoria Mbabazi's debut poetry collection has been eagerly anticipated. And now, with the publication of The Siren in the Twelfth House (Palimpsest ...
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September 17, 2024Jacob Wren Stumbles Into a Strange Utopia Amidst a Raging War Zone in Dry Your Tears to Perfect Your Aim
It's a difficult task to distill the political struggles of our time into fiction, and authors run the risk of either alienating readers by doing so, or by creating a story that is simply too close to ...
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September 13, 2024A Young Girl Looks to Family Stories and a Very Powerful Poem to Find her Place in I, Too, Am Here
A true sense of belonging may be taken for granted by some, but there are many who do not find it as easily. Whether due to social and cultural issues that marginalize immigrants and people of colour, ...
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September 11, 2024Two Young Athletes Find Themselves Torn Between the Sport They Love and State Rule in Eyes on the Ice
Already the author of two critically acclaimed hockey biographies for young readers, Anna Rosner has stayed with the sport, but shifted approaches and forms in her latest work. The result is the powerful ...
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September 10, 2024An Eclectic and Gripping Cast of Characters Yearn for Happiness in Caroline Adderson's New Short Story Collection
Caroline Adderson is an author that has long been lauded amongst readers and literary critics, with a reputation for writing powerful novels, and some of the finest short fiction published in Canada and ...
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September 03, 2024Read an Excerpt from Hope, the New Terry Fox Biography edited by Barbara Adhiya
We're beginning the Fall 2024 publishing season on a note of hope and inspiration today, as we share an excerpt from the powerful new biography on Terry Fox. With the latest edition of the Terry Fox Run ...
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October 02, 2024Read an Excerpt from May Our Joy Endure by Kevin Lambert, Translated From the French by Donald Winkler
The previous works from Kevin Lambert have garnered broad acclaim across the literary landscape, along with awards wins and nominations. It will come as no surprise to familiar readers that the latest ...
