The last two entries in our Short Story Month series are actually anthologies! The Unpublished City, Volume 1, Edited by Dionne Brand, and Write Across Canada: An Anthology of Emerging Writers, Curated by Joseph Kertes and Geoffrey Taylor, offer up a bevy of writing talent, perfect for getting an introduction to new writers and a […]
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In celebration of Black History Month and the many black voices that have shaped Canadian literature now and always, we have put together a list of six must-read black writers! These writers take us from the halls of literary obsession to the neighbourhoods of East Vancouver, to Toronto’s side streets, and back again. Read on […]
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In this week’s edition of Feature Friday, we are very pleased to bring you some excerpts from a sequel to the Toronto Book Award nominated anthology, The Unpublished City, Volume II, edited by Phoebe Wang, Canisia Lubrin & Dionne Brand. Orient yourself in the city with these nineteen works of creative non-fiction that offer a […]
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Myrmurs: An Exploded Sestina is Shannon Maguire’s second book of poetry in her planned medievalist trilogy. Myrmurs uses the twelfth-century poetic form of the sestina as a starting point for the exploration of living systems. Myrmurs is an innovative variant of the sestina form (a medieval mechanism of desire that spirals around six end words). Connecting medieval […]
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