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October 03, 2016The Vine Awards Kick Off Revamped Prizes with an Inspiring Year
2016 Vine Award winners After a previous incarnation as the Helen and Stan Vine Canadian Jewish Book Awards and a hiatus last year to re-focus and re-launch, the Vine Awards for Jewish Literature arrived ...
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April 08, 2021The void gazes back: online safety for poets
Welcome back, emerging poets and friends! It’s time to talk about that place where we spend approximately 39 hours a day. This first official post of Careful Inventory is about online safety because ...
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September 27, 2016The WAR Interview Series: Writers as Readers with Kate Sutherland
Kate Sutherland can do it all – she's a lawyer, a scholar, a prose writer, and now she is adding poet to her list of achievements. Her debut collection, How to Draw a Rhinoceros (BookThug), is suitably ...
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January 21, 2016The WAR Series: Writers As Readers, with Kenneth Sherman
Poet and essayist Kenneth Sherman has ventured into the realm of memoir with his powerful new book, Wait Time: A Memoir of Cancer (Wilfrid Laurier University Press).Starting from the time of his diagnosis, ...
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June 28, 2016The WAR Series: Writers As Readers, with Sue Sinclair
Sue Sinclair's Heaven's Thieves (Brick Books) gets right to the heart of the questions that drive us. What is beauty? What is the point of art? How are we meant to live, and how do we engage with the ...
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June 04, 2025The Winner of the 2025 Griffin Poetry Prize Has Been Announced!
A very fancy and inspiring evening at the Griffin Poetry Prize awards has concluded, and Psyche Running by Karen Leeder (translated from the German written by Durs Grünbein) has won the 2025 edition ...
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October 30, 2017The Wonderfully Weird World of November writer-in-residence Lisa de Nikolits
Lisa de Nikolits is the author of an impressive seven novels, each of them marked by her wild creativity and memorable characters. Her latest offering is No Fury Like That (Inanna Publications), a genre ...
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September 09, 2016The Word on the Street Interview Series: Laurie D. Graham
Laurie D. Graham may be a true Ontarian now, but her western roots are on display in her acclaimed new collection of poetry, Settler Education (McClelland & Stewart). With praise from none less than ...
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September 22, 2016The Word On The Street Interview Series: Michael Fraser
After a summer full of great reads, we're now firmly into the fall book prize and festival season. But it just doesn't feel like fall until our favourite outdoor festival kicks things off with bbq'd corn, ...
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September 13, 2017The Word on the Street interview with FedEx Express Canada President Lisa Lisson
The Word on the Street offers tons of exciting programming, but one aspect you don't want to miss is the Vibrant Voices of Ontario tent. Celebrating the unique and powerful literary voices of our province, ...