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  • Green banner image with text reading Contest Win a Prize Pack of books for hope and healing. Open Book and Groundwood Books logos bottom right
    Green banner image with text reading Contest Win a Prize Pack of books for hope and healing. Open Book and Groundwood Books logos bottom right
    October 16, 2023

    Contest: Enter to Win Hopeful Books Tackling Tough Subjects from Groundwood

    Groundwood Books, the Toronto children's publisher responsible for some of the most beautiful and acclaimed titles for kids in Canada, is giving away three books that represent the press's unique ability ...

  • Read an Excerpt from Richard Sanger's Final Poetry Collection, Way to Go
    Read an Excerpt from Richard Sanger's Final Poetry Collection, Way to Go
    April 06, 2023

    Read an Excerpt from Richard Sanger's Final Poetry Collection, Way to Go

    Facing a terminal diagnosis, poet, playwright, and translator Richard Sanger had to decide how to use his final days – and how he felt about the end. In time, he decided to do what he'd been doing ...

  • On Being an Ill Writer
    On Being an Ill Writer
    November 13, 2017

    On Being an Ill Writer

    Every day for a few years now, I’ve had to navigate my fatigue. Sometimes it’s only subtle, tugging at my consciousness as a toddler might. Sometimes it’s pervasive and insistent: clouding my thoughts, ...

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