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  • Banner image with a background photo of a woman playing piano. Over a dark blue foreground bar, text reads Interview with Ian Colford Author of The Confessions of Joseph Blanchard. Open Book logo bottom left, author photo of Ian Colford on the right
    Banner image with a background photo of a woman playing piano. Over a dark blue foreground bar, text reads Interview with Ian Colford Author of The Confessions of Joseph Blanchard. Open Book logo bottom left, author photo of Ian Colford on the right
    December 18, 2023

    Ian Colford on Writing His Third Novel, a Dark Tale of Power and Obsession

    Ian Colford's The Confessions of Joseph Blanchard (Guernica Editions) is a novel that looks squarely at our most firmly-held collective taboos. Set in Halifax, the titular Joseph Blanchard is ill and ...

  • George Lee on His Guernica Prize Winning Coming of Age Tale, Set Against the Cultural Revolution and Its Aftermath
    George Lee on His Guernica Prize Winning Coming of Age Tale, Set Against the Cultural Revolution and Its Aftermath
    December 15, 2022

    George Lee on His Guernica Prize Winning Coming of Age Tale, Set Against the Cultural Revolution and Its Aftermath

    In George Lee's Dancing in the River (Guernica Editions), Little Bright is only a child when China's Cultural Revolution upends his family and his life in a small, riverside town. As it wanes and ...

  • How The Guernica Prize Became One of CanLit's Most Unique Literary Awards
    How The Guernica Prize Became One of CanLit's Most Unique Literary Awards
    April 11, 2022

    How The Guernica Prize Became One of CanLit's Most Unique Literary Awards

    For many emerging writers, winning a literary prize is a dream that is perhaps only second is holding a copy of one's own, published book. In Canada, there's a young but exciting prize that offers a two-for-one ...

  • Read an Excerpt from K.R. Wilson's Guernica Prize Winning Novel, An Idea About My Dead Uncle
    Read an Excerpt from K.R. Wilson's Guernica Prize Winning Novel, An Idea About My Dead Uncle
    August 07, 2019

    Read an Excerpt from K.R. Wilson's Guernica Prize Winning Novel, An Idea About My Dead Uncle

    In 2018, Guernica Editions launched the inaugural Guernica Prize, an award for the best unpublished novel manuscript submitted, accepting applications from hopeful authors across the country. The jury ...

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