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May 07, 2024John Vaillant Wins the 2024 Writers' Trust Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing
The Writers’ Trust of Canada has awarded John Vaillant the $25,000 Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing for his book Fire Weather: The Making of a Beast (Knopf Canada). The award was ...
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April 17, 2024The 2024 Griffin Poetry Prize Shortlist Has Been Set
Today, the Griffin Poetry Prize announced its 2024 shortlist. With the previous international and Canadian awards combined into one, the Griffin Prize has become the biggest poetry award in the world, ...
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April 08, 2024Marc Perez Follows the Paths of Strangers and Wanderers in Dayo
Identity, language, and self are all at play in Dayo (Brick Books), the new collection of poetry from Marc Perez. It's a striking debut from the author, and one that explores what it truly means to ...
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March 11, 2024Kim Trainor's New Poetry Collection Gives Readers a Blueprint For Survival
Whether an expression of love or loss, of hope or fear, a collection of poetry can frame the most important happenings of our time and give readers a pathway through them. The poems in A Blueprint For ...
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March 08, 2024Two Novellas Come Together in Nora Gold's In Sickness and In Health / Yom Kippur in a Gym
Sometimes the stories we tell demand unique forms and approaches, and this is certainly the case with In Sickness and In Health/Yom Kippur in a Gym (Guernica Editions) by Nora Gold. This book isn't ...
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March 07, 2024Canada Reads 2024 Wrap-Up - The Future by Catherine Leroux Wins the Competition
After four days of passionate debate and discussion, Canada Reads 2024 came to a dramatic conclusion, with The Future by Catherine Leroux (translated by Susan Ouriou) taking the glory. Championed ...
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March 01, 2024Grant Writing 101: Changes to Canada Council Grants
There are changes at the Canada Council! They were posted without any fanfare or public announcement, but the Canada Council for the Arts has made some significant changes to their granting programs. DeadlinesThere ...
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February 29, 2024Brian Dedora Navigates the Truths and Half-Truths of a Traveller in The Apple in the Orchard
The wanderings of a lone traveller through the wilderness, rural and urban, can be harrowing and fraught. But what if the most dangerous journey that traveller must take is a journey into memory?Experimental ...
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February 27, 2024Johanna Skibsrud shares the lives and perspectives of women who biologically, physically, or spiritually shaped the course of history, in Medium
How do we truly transmit experience, while remaining open to transmissions from others; physically, biologically, intellectually, spirituallly, or culturally? This is one of the central questions in the ...
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February 06, 2024Read an Excerpt from Pale Shadows by Dominique Fortier, Translated by Rhonda Mullins
What is the purpose of stories if they languish in the shadows? If they are written down only to wait by on paper in a drawer in the hope that someone, anyone, will pull them out and share them with the ...
