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  • Read an Excerpt from Steven Heighton's Final Story Collection, Instructions for the Drowning
    Read an Excerpt from Steven Heighton's Final Story Collection, Instructions for the Drowning
    April 13, 2023

    Read an Excerpt from Steven Heighton's Final Story Collection, Instructions for the Drowning

    The CanLit community came together in mourning last year when the news broke that beloved and acclaimed Kingston-based writer Steven Heighton had passed away at the age of 60. Known for his powerful multi-genre ...

  • Remembering Steven Heighton and the Vancouver 125 Poetry Conference
    Remembering Steven Heighton and the Vancouver 125 Poetry Conference
    June 30, 2022

    Remembering Steven Heighton and the Vancouver 125 Poetry Conference

    One of the jokes I have with myself is that my first exposure to the public world of poetry was so traumatizing that I had no choice but to accommodate what I saw, however subconsciously. Ten years ago, ...

  • Poetry Month Contest! Win Anansi's Powerhouse Spring List: Mary Germaine, Bardia Sinaee, & Steven Heighton
    Poetry Month Contest! Win Anansi's Powerhouse Spring List: Mary Germaine, Bardia Sinaee, & Steven Heighton
    April 19, 2021

    Poetry Month Contest! Win Anansi's Powerhouse Spring List: Mary Germaine, Bardia Sinaee, & Steven Heighton

    April is National Poetry Month and thanks to the good folks at House of Anansi Press, we get to offer one lucky reader a prize pack of some of the most exciting new poetry in Canada! Though the pandemic ...

  • "I Had No Choice But to Write It" The 2020 Weston Prize Finalists on the Power & Pleasure of Nonfiction
    "I Had No Choice But to Write It" The 2020 Weston Prize Finalists on the Power & Pleasure of Nonfiction
    November 09, 2020

    "I Had No Choice But to Write It" The 2020 Weston Prize Finalists on the Power & Pleasure of Nonfiction

    As creative nonfiction continues to evolve as a genre and authors find themselves sharing more of their own personal stories as well as traditional research and analysis, we see nonfiction growing to ...

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