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

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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: Intellectual property, rejection letters, your liberal arts degree, and drinking

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Goth is all but gone from Queen West. Bookstores are closing. Rob “the Jerk” Ford’s  approval rating is rising. (Seriously?!) What is my poor city coming to? Forget it. Escapism. That’s what the Internet’s for, right? At least in part? So, change your Twitter language settings to lolcat, and…Oh, wait. Most of these links are equally depressing.

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

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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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