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WEBExcerpt from The Audacity of Relevance: Critical Conversations on the Future of Arts and Culture; Agony Editor: Let flippant comments lie; Excerpt from Bad Artist: Creating in a Productivity-Obsessed World
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WEBJob Board. Sales Associate Dundurn Press Ltd. Toronto Full-time. Sep, 26 new. Report Writer & Editor Barker Hutchinson & Associates Ltd. Toronto Full-time. Sep, 18. Writer in Residence Saskatoon Public Library. Saskatoon Contract.
All the Quiet Places - Quill and Quire - Quill & Quire
WEBBrian Thomas Isaac’s All the Quiet Places transports the reader across time and space to a, well, quiet corner of the Okanagan Indian Reserve in the southern Interior of British Columbia in 1956. There, six-year-old Eddie lives with his mother, Grace, and younger brother, Lewis, isolated from most of their community except for his grandmother and maternal uncle, who live in close proximity.
Elle - Quill and Quire
WEBLoosely modelled after Marguerite de Roberval, the niece of French colonist Jean-François de la Rocque de Roberval, Elle is a young French woman bound for Canada on her uncle’s ship in the year 1542. In her own words, she is “a headstrong girl.”. Despite an aristocratic upbringing and education, she is a hedonist at heart, with a ...
Forty years on, In Search of April Raintree remains a …
WEBThis year marks the 40th anniversary of Métis author Beatrice Mosionier’s best-known work In Search of April Raintree. The novel candidly deals with Indigenous experiences of sexual assault, suicide, and alcoholism, and follows the lives of sisters April and Cheryl as they are separated from their birth family and placed in foster care ...
For Paul Tom, Alone: The Journey of Three Young Refugees …
WEBThis May, Montreal-based filmmaker, animator, and digital storytelling instructor Paul Tom releases his first book, Alone: The Journey of Three Young Refugees (Groundwood Books), published in French as Seuls by La Courte Echelle. Adapted from the 2021 film of the same name, and illustrated by Mélanie Baillairgé (with translation by …
Stolen Words - Quill and Quire - Quill & Quire
WEBDec 1, 2017 · A group of children stand, their heads reluctantly held to the sky with mouths open as their voices flow from their throats in smoky wisps, coalescing into a large blackbird. The bird flies into a cage, held by a white priest. Back in the present, when the grandfather opens the Cree language book, the previously caged blackbird is released ...
Rumours of Glory - Quill and Quire - Quill & Quire
WEBIt was quite literally a rumour of glory. Cockburn has always been an outsider, even after he became a household name. Soft spoken, sensitive, and a devout Christian, he began his career as a kind of anti-star, often shying away from chances to make it to the “next level.”. When big-time fame was thrust upon him in the late 1970s, with the ...
Have You Eaten Yet?: Stories from Chinese Restaurants ... - Quill
WEBFormat: Paper. ISBN: 978-1-77162-315-5. Released: Jan. Issue Date: March 2022. Categories: Food & Drink Reviews. Among Chinese people, the phrase “Have you eaten yet?” is shorthand for “How are you?”. This colloquial greeting, writes filmmaker Cheuk Kwan, “shows that you care. Because of war, famine and poverty, people in old China ...
Learned by Heart - Quill and Quire - Quill & Quire
WEBEmma Donoghue’s latest novel, Learned by Heart, does just that. She takes the written traces of the relationship between Anne Lister (the notable 19th-century diarist and queer trailblazer, now of Gentleman Jack TV series fame) and Eliza Raine, young lovers in Georgian England, and considers how uniquely murky this gap can be when it comes to ...