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  • Interview with Greg Cowan banner. Blue section to left of banner with text and Open Book logo overlaid. Author photo on right side of image, young man with a long-sleeved white shirt and backwards baseball cap taking selfie at arms length while smiling, standing on a grassy hillside with trees and a suspended chairlift line in the background.
    Interview with Greg Cowan banner. Blue section to left of banner with text and Open Book logo overlaid. Author photo on right side of image, young man with a long-sleeved white shirt and backwards baseball cap taking selfie at arms length while smiling, standing on a grassy hillside with trees and a suspended chairlift line in the background.
    August 06, 2024

    Greg Cowan Celebrates Canadian Sports and Athletes with the Latest Entry in the Canada's Teams Series

    The history of Canadian sport is full of rich and exhilarating stories, both of teams and individual athletes that have strived for greatness and inspired generations of young people to participate in ...

  • Read an Excerpt from Richard Harrison's 25: Hockey Poems, New and Revised
    Read an Excerpt from Richard Harrison's 25: Hockey Poems, New and Revised
    November 26, 2019

    Read an Excerpt from Richard Harrison's 25: Hockey Poems, New and Revised

    Winter is fast approaching, and for many Canadians that means bundling up, strapping on some skates and hitting the ice. From highly-organized leagues to friendly pick-up games on a local pond, our nation's ...

  • Read an Excerpt from Carrie S. Allen's Michigan vs. the Boys
    Read an Excerpt from Carrie S. Allen's Michigan vs. the Boys
    November 21, 2019

    Read an Excerpt from Carrie S. Allen's Michigan vs. the Boys

    A steely-nerved young girl and the pervasive, toxic masculinity of hockey culture face each other head-on in Carrie S. Allen's new YA novel, Michigan vs. the Boys (Kids Can Press).Michigan Manning, a ...

  • Celebrating the 10th Anniversary of Randall Maggs' Award Winning Night Work, Honouring Goalie Terry Sawchuk
    Celebrating the 10th Anniversary of Randall Maggs' Award Winning Night Work, Honouring Goalie Terry Sawchuk
    January 15, 2018

    Celebrating the 10th Anniversary of Randall Maggs' Award Winning Night Work, Honouring Goalie Terry Sawchuk

    It's been ten years since the original publication of Randall Maggs' Night Work: The Sawchuk Poems (Brick Books). At the time, the collection swept up countless awards and honours, including the Winterset ...

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