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Ottawa Literary Awards Winners
via rob mclennan: Ottawa Literary Awards Winners Announced: Stephen Brockwell wins Archibald Lampman by Wanda O'Connor www.ottawapoetry.blogspot.com...
Charles Montgomery wins 2005 Charles Taylor Prize
TORONTO - Vancouver writer Charles Montgomery has won the 2005 Charles Taylor Prize, an annual award that celebrates Canadian literary...
online guide note
hi all life is getting crazy for us as we are moving, etc, so we may take longer than usual...
new award for children's authors
TORONTO - A new award for children's authors worth more than $60,000 was announced on Thursday. Sponsored by the Canadian...
More artists in Canada, but still making less than most: study
TORONTO - Though there are a record number of Canadians working as artists today, they earn 26 per cent less,...
Michel Basilieres wins first-novel award
TORONTO - Author Michel Basilieres is the recipient of this year's First Novel Award for Canadian writers. At a ceremony...
Globe and Mail loses copyright case
TORONTO - The Ontario Court of Appeal has ruled that the Globe and Mail violated copyright law when it republished...
giller prize shortlist: 2004
TORONTO - Alice Munro and Wayson Choy were among the authors named Thursday to the short list of one of...
Toronto's new poet laureate: Pier Giorgio Di Cicco
via cbc TORONTO - Toronto has appointed Pier Giorgio Di Cicco as the city's new poet laureate. Born in Arezzo,...
PETITION ONLINE TO SAVE COACH HOUSE
SIGN THE PETITION ONLINE TO SAVE COACH HOUSE! Coach House Press has been fighting to save its home. Our landlord,...
Vassanji wins Giller Prize
Vassanji accepted a $25,000 cheque for the book, The In-Between World of Vikram Lall. "It feels like a mistake," Vassanji...
foreign journalists in america
Welcome to America When writer Elena Lappin flew to LA, she dreamed of a sunkissed, laid-back city. But that was...
Griffin Poetry Prize: 2004 winners
Two poets – an Atlantic Canadian and an American with a Canadian pedigree – were named winners of the 2004...
Molson Prize: Maria Campbell
"Maria Campbell, the Métis writer who began her multi-discipline artistic career with her autobiography Halfbreed in 1973, has won the...
Playwrights' workshop celebrates 40 years of Cdn. content
MONTREAL - This week, Playwrights' Workshop Montreal, which has seen its plays win awards and travel across the country and...
canadians awarded persecuted-writer prizes
TORONTO - The Canadian author of books about sex killers Paul Bernardo and Karla Homolka has been given a grant...
PEN award: Mavis Gallant
via cbc: NEW YORK - Ex-pat Canadian Mavis Gallant was among a list of PEN International's recent literary prizewinners. The...
Atwood Interview
Margaret Atwood Interview by Emma Brockes at the Guardian....
2004 KIRIYAMA PRIZE WINNERS ANNOUNCED
2004 KIRIYAMA PRIZE WINNERS ANNOUNCED Two Canadian Titles Recognized as “Notable Books” SAN FRANCISCO (March 23, 2004) The 8th...
Freelance discussion list
Hello Freelance Writers, Between the words, _free kick_ and _freeloader_ in the dictionary, comes _freelance_. This is not what I'd...
Ottawa International Writers Festival Scales Back
WRITERS FESTIVAL TO CLOSE OFFICE AND SCALE BACK In the face of budget cuts from the City, the Ottawa International...
2004 bpNichol Chapbook Award
The call is out now for submissions for the 2004 bpNichol Chapbook Award, sponsored by the mysterious Phoenix Community Works...
www.zeroculture.ca
Zero Culture is a response to the Ottawa draft budget that cuts Ottawa Cultural Support levels to 57 cents per...
Miriam Waddington: 1917 - 2004
from the globe and mail: MIRIAM WADDINGTON (NÉE DWORKIN) 86, of Vancouver, died March 3, 2004, at the Louis Brier...
Bywords.ca News
Bywords seeks unpublished poetry from current or former Ottawa writers. Send your work before the 15th of each month,for publication...
freedom to read week
i've been busy and forgot it was freedom to read week... Freedom to Read Week February 22 to 28,...
NEW EDITOR FOR THIS MAGAZINE
This Magazine is pleased to announce that it has found its new editor. Patricia D'Souza will be taking over the...
John Newlove: 1938 - Dec 23, 2003
We're sad to pass on news that John Newlove has died. He passed away on Dec 23, in Ottawa, his...
Changes at ARC
CHANGES AT ARC After a combined 31 years of service, John Barton and Rita Donovan are stepping down as co-editors...
ARC: Poem of the Year Winner
B.C. POET WINS ARC'S TOP PRIZE Harold Rhenish of 100 Mile Ranch, B.C., has won the 2003 Poem of the...
2003 bp Nichol chapbook award
This year's bp Nichol chapbook award has been given to two authors: Stan Dragland for 12 Bars (Running The Goat...
Douglas Barbour Inducted into Hall of Fame
Douglas Barbour, President of NeWest Press's Board of Directors, was inducted into Edmonton's Cultural Hall of Fame in June, at...
Carol Shields: 1935 - 2003
Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Carol Shields has died after a long battle with breast cancer at the age of 68. CBC...
above/ground press: 10 years
to celebrate 10 whole years of making odd little chapbooks, etc, all above/ground press authors, past & present, are invited...