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  • March 10, 2017

    What I Wish Someone Had Told Me about Becoming a Writer #2: Elisabeth de Mariaffi

    In my early 30s I went back to school to do my MFA at the University of Guelph-Humber. I was afraid I'd be older than everyone else in my cohort, and thus I was happy to meet a contemporary in Ken Babstock's ...

  • March 02, 2017

    What I Wish Someone Had Told Me About Being a Writer #1 - Q& A With Andrew Sullivan

    For the last two months I've been writer-in-residence at U of T in Scarborough. This means I get an office to write in, I run a writing group with creative writing students once a week, and give editorial ...

  • March 02, 2017

    Your Book Doesn't Belong to You

    You can never control how your work is going to be read, and that's part of the lovely participatory nature of the writer-reader relationship. But it can sometimes be jarring. I spent seven years writing ...

  • The Dirty Dozen, with our March writer-in-residence, Zoe Whittall!
    The Dirty Dozen, with our March writer-in-residence, Zoe Whittall!
    February 27, 2017

    The Dirty Dozen, with our March writer-in-residence, Zoe Whittall!

    Zoe Whittall was already an acclaimed novelist, poet, and television writer in Canada and beyond before her latest novel, The Best Kind of People (House of Anansi Press) exploded onto the literary scene, ...

  • The Pitch
    The Pitch
    June 14, 2016

    The Pitch

    Submitted by kevin on June 14, 2016 - 1:26pmI spent the last three weeks in a writing room with some of the most talented comedy writers I’ve ever had the pleasure of meeting.One of the most exciting ...

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