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Please join us to celebrate the launch of my new book, Water Sight (Last of the Gifted, Book 2) on Wednesday, Nov 25, at 2:00 pm CST

If you have read my work and it resonates with you, then I’d love to have you attend this Pedlar Press poetry reading this coming Saturday, November 28th at 5pm... Ontario time. Please email Beth Follett of Pedlar Press at [email protected] to register. The information will then be sent to you. Some copies of my book, These Wings, are still available from Pedlar Press, but it’s had a very good print run so there aren’t that many left of the 400 copy run. If you’d like a copy, you can ask Beth for one at the same time. I am, as always, terribly grateful for my home town’s support over the years, and for the support of writer friends from across the country, and from overseas. I am incredibly blessed as a writer...and as a person. I know this much is true, and I am most grateful for the people in Sudbury who have always bought my books over the last twenty-three years, and who have been so generous with their support. Thank you all for that gift. I wish all writers had such a compassionate and well woven community of supporters. (And to Windsor...you know you’re my second home, so I am grateful for your support, too. Essex County is in my heart and I so miss my Carolinians and Point Pelee.) #canadianpoetry #canadianwomenwrite #canlit #TheseWings #poetry #poetsofinstagram

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Celebrating impressive Canadian literary writing Today! Watch the digital Writers' Trust Awards: Books of the Year Edition, hosted by Kamal Al-Solaylee... Join us online at 11am PT / 2pm ET for the digital premiere of the 2020 Writers' Trust Awards: Books of the Year Edition. We'll be celebrating the finalists and announcing the winners of two of Canada's most notable literary prizes: $60,000 Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction (https://www.writerstrust.com//hilary-weston-writers-trust-) $50,000 Writers' Trust Fiction Prize (https://www.writerstrust.com/aw/writers-trust-fiction-prize) . Writers' Trust Awards: Books of the Year Edition Wednesday, November 18, 2020 11am PT / 12pm MT / 1pm CT / 2pm ET / 3pm AT / 3:30pm NT Watch the premiere or view the show afterwards at your convenience Watch on YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch) Watch on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/writerstrust/posts/10157345114141184) #WESTONPRIZE Given for the year's best work of Canadian nonfiction, this prize spotlights books with a distinctive voice, as well as a persuasive and compelling command of tone, narrative, style, and technique. Congratulations to this year's finalists: Lorna Crozier for Through the Garden: A Love Story (with Cats) Steven Heighton for Reaching Mithymna: Among the Volunteers and Refugees on Lesvos Jessica J. Lee for Two Trees Make a Forest: In Search of My Family's Past Among Taiwan's Mountains and Coasts Tessa McWatt for Shame on Me: An Anatomy of Race and Belonging David A. Neel for The Way Home Read more about the books at writerstrust.com/nonfiction[1][1][1]

We couldn't resist "An Oxford comma walks into a bar, where it spends the evening watching the television, getting drunk, and smoking cigars. A dangling participle walks into a bar. Enjoying a cocktail and chatting with the bartender, the evening passes pleasantly. A bar was walked into by the passive voice.... An oxymoron walked into a bar, and the silence was deafening. Two quotation marks walk into a bar. A malapropism walks into a bar, looking for all intensive purposes like a wolf in cheap clothing, muttering epitaphs and casting dispersions on his magnificent other, who takes him for granite. Hyperbole totally rips into this insane bar and absolutely destroys everything. A question mark walks into a bar? A non sequitur walks into a bar. In a strong wind, even turkeys can fly. Papyrus and Comic Sans walk into a bar. The bartender says, "Get out -- we don't serve your type." A mixed metaphor walks into a bar, seeing the handwriting on the wall but hoping to nip it in the bud. A comma splice walks into a bar, it has a drink and then leaves. Three intransitive verbs walk into a bar. They sit. They converse. They depart. A synonym strolls into a tavern. At the end of the day, a cliché walks into a bar -- fresh as a daisy, cute as a button, and sharp as a tack. A run-on sentence walks into a bar it starts flirting. With a cute little sentence fragment. Falling slowly, softly falling, the chiasmus collapses to the bar floor. A figure of speech literally walks into a bar and ends up getting figuratively hammered. An allusion walks into a bar, despite the fact that alcohol is its Achilles heel. The subjunctive would have walked into a bar, had it only known. A misplaced modifier walks into a bar owned by a man with a glass eye named Ralph. The past, present, and future walked into a bar. It was tense. A dyslexic walks into a bra. A verb walks into a bar, sees a beautiful noun, and suggests they conjugate. The noun declines. A simile walks into a bar, as parched as a desert. A gerund and an infinitive walk into a bar, drinking to forget. A hyphenated word and a non-hyphenated word walk into a bar and the bartender nearly chokes on the irony" - Jill Thomas Doyle

https://www.kingstonwritersfes Great line-up!

Anne Wheeler's new book....thanks Kent Nason for sharing this post originally.

The words and thoughts flow despite the means of production, eh?

Writers’ Trust announces finalists for 20th anniversary Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing. Shortlist features hot button topics such as Indigenous justice, diplomacy with China, and the quest for a UN Security Council seat July, 2020 Toronto The Writers’ Trust of Canada has named five finalists for the 20th annual $25,000 Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing. The winner will be announced on the evening of September 23, 2020 via a digital edition of t...Continue reading

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