Congratulations to Tamas Dobozy who won the Writers’ Trust prize for fiction for Siege 13, and to Alex Pugsley, who won the Journey Prize for “Crisis on Earth X,” published in The Dalhousie Review. Chad Pelley has more on the winners on Salty Ink, and Lynn Coady offer’s a juror’s perspective on Open Book Ontario. John Barber’s […]
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I have an absurd number of books on my to-read shelf. These are books that I’ve bought, and physically have on my shelves, waiting to be read. I don’t know how I’m ever going to catch up, especially with all the neat books that have come out this fall, and the classics I have yet to read.
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Fall publishing season is well under way, and it’s also award season! Congratulations to Will Ferguson for winning the Giller Prize for 419, and congratulations are also in order for the winners of the 2012 ReLit Awards: Suzette Mayr for best novel (Monoceros), Greg Kearney for short fiction (Pretty) and Patrick Friesen for poetry (Jumping the Asylum).
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Broken Pencil 57 is the prison issue, and I’ve got a few reviews inside.
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Thanks to the kind folks at Open Book Toronto I won a poetry prize pack, which included tickets to two poetry events at the IFOA, as well as several poetry books: Killdeer, Rain; road; an open boat, and Omens in the Year of the Ox. The first was a reading and round table with Roo Borson, Sadiqa
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While I was on vacation in visiting my in-laws in England, I didn’t get as much read I typically do. A mere eight books read in September. 119. The Invisibles, Vol. 4: Bloody Hell in America, by Grant Morrison (Vertigo, 1998) Making my way through them. 120. Mad Hope, by Heather Birrell (Coach House Books, 2012) This
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