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WINNIPEG, MANITOBA – The Manitoba Writers' Guild is pleased to announce its recent hire of Winnipeg playwright Carolyn Gray, who will take the helm of the Guild as its Executive Director starting June 17, 2013.
Banff Festival and Shaw Media Announce Mentorship Program Finalists Broadcaster The Banff World Media Festival today announced the finalists of this year's Shaw Media Mentorship Programs that take place at the annual Festival from June 9-12 in...
Harper Lee, author of the American classic To Kill A Mockingbird, is seen in 2007.
The Government House in Victoria hosted the 29th annual B.C. Book Prizes this past Saturday, with a total of $24,000 being awarded.
Two things have come about as a direct result of the writer-in-residence position I held at the Last Mountain Lake Cultural Centre. Both leave me thrilled and deeply touched. The first, an i...
May.2.2013. paulo da costa makes a list of “Literary Bites in Bits” for 49th Shelf paulo da costa, author of the new short story collection The Green and Purple Skin of the World, talks about some of his favourite short fiction collections: “For...
May 4-11th is the 2013 Canadian Children's Book Week. Canadian Children's Book Week celebrates Canadian children's books and the importance of reading. Canadian Children's Book Week is organized by the Canadian ...
“In 2012, the Canadian trade market for print books experienced a dip. This is not unexpected as ebooks gain popularity among readers. According to BookNet Canada's market research, in 2012 approximately 15% of books ...
Victoria author Bill Gaston among B.C. Book Prizes winners
One of the defining voices of the "second wave" of feminism was the radical magazine Spare Rib. The British publication was an offshoot of the feminist movement of the late 1960s....
Book events Ottawa Citizen The Canadian Bookbinders and Book Artists Guild hosts a Book Arts Show and Sale, 10:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Library and Archives Canada, 395 Wellington St.
Canadian literature has long been preoccupied with the wilderness and the landscape, but the garden has remained neglected terrain. In Garden Plots, Shelley ...
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Okanagan College presents a weekend of writing with internationally acclaimed and bestselling author Gail Anderson-Dargatz May 18 and 19 at the Vernon campus. Gail offers four workshops: “Writing Home” or writing from ...
Travel: Where the deer and the dinosaurs roam Waterloo Record Our small group of travel writers was taking an Alberta road trip to learn more about an area known as the Badlands. What's so ...
Fans of Japanese author Haruki Murakami queue to buy his new novel Colourless Tsukuru Tazaki and the Year of his Pilgrimage at a Tokyo bookstore in April.
The poems are Birthday, Canoeing the St. John River, Dreams, Prayer, Roses and Witness. Sue Sinclair reads from Mortal Arguments. Find out more at http://www...
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May.2.2013. Books set in Calgary The ever-awesome Calgary is Awesome did a recent piece about books set in Calgary, and was kind enough to include Ali Bryan’s Roost, which includes a business trip to Calgary that features “Alberta Beef, operational...
Her Brupp books and the picture book Lobster in my Pocket are quite well known. She has been a fixture at UPEI for many years, teaching creative writing, an unbelievably popular course on children's literature (there are ...
May.04.2013. Ian Williams takes the Magic 8 Ian Williams takes Canada Writes’ Magic 8, and future-Ian-from-2063 stops in to answer a question too! Read the interview.
It began as a joke about replacing the shabby vomit-green couches in the English department’s creative writing room, and it’s turned into a $1-million gift for the University of Alberta’s writer-in-residence program.
Ryan Stromquist A review of I Know Who You Remind Me Of by Naomi K. Lewis Enfield & Wizenty (2012) ISBN: 978-1-926531-51-9 $29.95 Naomi K. Lewis’ I Know Who You Remind Me Of is a collection of ...
Best Book Stores: Highlights from some of the best shops in the world CTV News In Halifax, Woozles Childrens Bookstore is an iconic children's bookstore.
A book for everyone on why we can never beat the clock - Vancouver Sun Vancouver Sun Lee Smolin will be speaking as part of the Vancouver Writers Fest's Incite Series at 7:30 p.m. on Monday, May 6 at the Vancouver Public Library, 350 West Georgia St.
Most writers are easily distracted; trying out just one more app often sounds better than slogging through your manuscript.
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