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Largely Literary Linkage: Equality, CanLit, and video games

April was Poetry Month, and May is Short Story Month. Is there a literary category for every month of the year? No, but perhaps there ought to be. This Saturday isn’t just Star Wars Day (“May the fourth be with you”), this year it’s also Free Comic Book Day, which is always held the first Saturday in […]

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Largely Literary Linkage: Interview, classifieds, rewriting and game design

April is Poetry Month, rejoice! Read poetry! Read about poets! Go to poetry readings! Write poetry! It’s all good stuff. Maybe get some Canadiana in there? Though Canadians no longer seem to know who they read. Which is troubling. There’s always the Griffin Poetry Prize shortlist, which recently announced, both Canadian and international. Congrats to all! Test

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Largely Literary Linkage: VIDA, transparency, Hamlet, and ereaders

Google Reader is disappearing as of July 1st, 2013. Which marks the death of one of the very few Google products I use these days. Slate.com has created a graveyard of dead Google products. I’d long since forgotten about most of these, and there were more than a few I hadn’t heard of. But the Reader? That

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Largely Literary Linkage: Graphic design, poetry, death, Randroids and motherfuckers

As I’m sure you’ve heard by now, The Globe and Mail recently changed up their Books section staff. There was an outpouring of goodwill on Twitter, which was heartening to see. More info on Q&Q, and an even-handed response from the Literary Press Group. As a result, they’re hiring a new Books Editor. If you’re interested, you

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Suburbs, porn, contraception, geeks, and a pink lake

Ah, the smell of leaves and awards in the air…Yup, still fall. The winners of this year’s Governor General’s Literary Awards have been announced, and congratulations are due to Linda Spalding for English Fiction (The Purchase) and Julie Bruck for English Poetry (Monkey Ranch). There are numerous other categories of winners for works in both English and

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Literary bars, hedgehogs, horses, dolphins, and William Shatner

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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