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 …
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Broken Pencil has launched The Nub in conjunction with Geist, Matrix, subTerrain, and Taddle Creek. It’s a new app for iPhone and Android that collects indie arts and culture articles, short stories, review, comics, interviews and a bunch of other neat sounding stuff. I know this because they’ve e-mailed me about it like three times in the …
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. …
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