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  • May 25, 2023

    On Writing in Longhand

    I have bad handwriting. I always have. I remember as a child being put through the terrible paces of the Canadian Penmanship books at school, which were intended to teach us to write in cursive (one of ...

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SMU Reading Series: Kate Cayley

The SMU Reading Series presents: An evening with Kate Cayley, winner of the Trillium Award, the O Henry Prize and the Mitchell Prize for Poetry.

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