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Ask the Agony Editor: on being a woman writer of colour in CanLit
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Ask the Agony Editor: on poetic license
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Ask the Agony Editor: on pursuing feedback from prize juries
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Down the rabbit hole: David Day decodes Lewis Carroll’s kidlit classic
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Banff Centre’s memoir residency strikes a chord with prospective storytellers
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Ask the Agony Editor: on memoirs
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Ann-Marie MacDonald to serve as Concordia University’s inaugural Mordecai Richler writer-in-residence
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