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  • The Best of Both Worlds
    The Best of Both Worlds
    March 31, 2022

    The Best of Both Worlds

    Humber College’s new undergrad in creative and professional writing strives to nurture skilled creative professionals.I always wanted to be a writer. Or maybe it’s that I always wrote. I took the ...

  • Making the Leap: Why Writing Programs Matter Right Now
    Making the Leap: Why Writing Programs Matter Right Now
    March 18, 2022

    Making the Leap: Why Writing Programs Matter Right Now

    I’ve been on campus exactly once since March 2020, during the height of one of the province’s lockdowns, to pack up my old office at Humber College’s Lakeshore Campus. I was leaving my post as the ...

  • Guest Column: What exactly is a ‘rights sale’?
    Guest Column: What exactly is a ‘rights sale’?
    April 01, 2020

    Guest Column: What exactly is a ‘rights sale’?

    Have you ever wondered how books rights are sold, and what kinds of rights are in play when a book is published? Many published authors are still mystified by some of these aspects of publishing, so we've ...

  • Pivot Readings
    Pivot Readings
    June 18, 2019

    All Booked Up - Pivot Reading Series

    The roots of Pivot Readings stretch back to 1998, when poet Paul Vermeersch started a fiction and poetry reading series in Toronto’s adorably dilapidated I.V. Lounge. When that venue closed in 2008, ...

  • Guest Column - So I Opened a Bookstore
    Guest Column - So I Opened a Bookstore
    April 06, 2017

    Guest Column - So I Opened a Bookstore

    So I opened a bookstore.Yes, yes, I know – “in this day and age?” “Bookstores are going under!” “What about digital books?” “No one reads paper books anymore!”But I had been reading ...

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