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Dispatches from the Submissions Process
by Leah Duarte I’ve been submitting my work again. After two years where my focus was on writing, then editing, my own manuscript as well as the WiT Forest Floor anthology, I was accepted into a po…
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"Dispatches from the Submission Process" by Leah Duarte writersintrees.com/2025/08/05/d...
#Writing #WritingCommunity #WritingAdvice #WritingTips #WritingProcess
#Writing #WritingCommunity #WritingAdvice #WritingTips #WritingProcess
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The 2025 Wayzgoose is rapidly approaching! On Thurs, Sept 4, join us from 5 PM ’til LATE at the coach house, with a very special diamond anniversary toast at 8 PM. RSVP to let us know you’re just as excited as we are: www.eventbrite.ca/e/wayzgoose-...
August 21, 2025 at 1:39 PM
The 2025 Wayzgoose is rapidly approaching! On Thurs, Sept 4, join us from 5 PM ’til LATE at the coach house, with a very special diamond anniversary toast at 8 PM. RSVP to let us know you’re just as excited as we are: www.eventbrite.ca/e/wayzgoose-...
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We are thrilled to announce the finalists for the 2025 Lampman Award, recognizing outstanding poetry from brilliant Ottawa-based poets: Emily Austin's “Gay Girl Prayers,” Manahil Bandukwala's “Heliotropia,” and AJ Dolman's “Crazy/Mad.” Stay tuned for details about the winner announcement this fall!
August 25, 2025 at 10:49 PM
We are thrilled to announce the finalists for the 2025 Lampman Award, recognizing outstanding poetry from brilliant Ottawa-based poets: Emily Austin's “Gay Girl Prayers,” Manahil Bandukwala's “Heliotropia,” and AJ Dolman's “Crazy/Mad.” Stay tuned for details about the winner announcement this fall!
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Registration is open for ALL our events in Season 12!
Grab your free ticket, or pay what you can to support our authors.
Reserve space for us in your calendars. We'd be so grateful!
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Grab your free ticket, or pay what you can to support our authors.
Reserve space for us in your calendars. We'd be so grateful!
junctionreads.ca/upcoming-sch...
Upcoming Events
Junction Reads in-person events take place at TYPE Books in the Junction (a physically accessible space). We livestream our events through Zoom. Our online events take place once per month via Zoom…
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August 16, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Registration is open for ALL our events in Season 12!
Grab your free ticket, or pay what you can to support our authors.
Reserve space for us in your calendars. We'd be so grateful!
junctionreads.ca/upcoming-sch...
Grab your free ticket, or pay what you can to support our authors.
Reserve space for us in your calendars. We'd be so grateful!
junctionreads.ca/upcoming-sch...
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ONE MONTH AWAY!
I'd love it if you could join me
to celebrate the launch of
NMLCT: poems
Wed, Sept 24, 2025
at The Piston
937 Bloor Street West,
from 7 to 10pm
[festivities included]
I look forward to celebrating with you!
Sincerely, Paul Vermeersch
I'd love it if you could join me
to celebrate the launch of
NMLCT: poems
Wed, Sept 24, 2025
at The Piston
937 Bloor Street West,
from 7 to 10pm
[festivities included]
I look forward to celebrating with you!
Sincerely, Paul Vermeersch
August 25, 2025 at 12:41 AM
ONE MONTH AWAY!
I'd love it if you could join me
to celebrate the launch of
NMLCT: poems
Wed, Sept 24, 2025
at The Piston
937 Bloor Street West,
from 7 to 10pm
[festivities included]
I look forward to celebrating with you!
Sincerely, Paul Vermeersch
I'd love it if you could join me
to celebrate the launch of
NMLCT: poems
Wed, Sept 24, 2025
at The Piston
937 Bloor Street West,
from 7 to 10pm
[festivities included]
I look forward to celebrating with you!
Sincerely, Paul Vermeersch
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Check out Thomas King's new novel title! Love that it's next to my novel, All Things Under the Moon. Thanks CBC Books for including my book on your list of #CanadianFiction to read this fall. See the full list www.cbc.ca/books/fictio...
#CanadianAuthors #AllThingsUnderTheMoon #AnnYKChoi
#CanadianAuthors #AllThingsUnderTheMoon #AnnYKChoi
August 23, 2025 at 1:49 AM
Check out Thomas King's new novel title! Love that it's next to my novel, All Things Under the Moon. Thanks CBC Books for including my book on your list of #CanadianFiction to read this fall. See the full list www.cbc.ca/books/fictio...
#CanadianAuthors #AllThingsUnderTheMoon #AnnYKChoi
#CanadianAuthors #AllThingsUnderTheMoon #AnnYKChoi
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Announcing the 2025 Tamarack Prize & Critics’ Desk Award winners. The Tamarack Prize has been awarded to Nwuguru Chidiebere Sullivan for “The Smoke Signals a Migrant Returning.” The Critics' Desk Award goes to two brilliant writers: Natalie Hanna and Jane Shi.
August 23, 2025 at 7:50 AM
Announcing the 2025 Tamarack Prize & Critics’ Desk Award winners. The Tamarack Prize has been awarded to Nwuguru Chidiebere Sullivan for “The Smoke Signals a Migrant Returning.” The Critics' Desk Award goes to two brilliant writers: Natalie Hanna and Jane Shi.
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Denmark eliminates 25% book tax to combat declining reading
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Denmark eliminates 25% book tax to combat declining reading skills
Denmark is eliminating its 25% book tax after finding reading skills in steep decline. Culture Minister Engel-Schmidt: "The gift of reading is something we should give to younger generations."
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August 23, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Denmark eliminates 25% book tax to combat declining reading
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"Dispatches from the Submission Process" by Leah Duarte writersintrees.com/2025/08/05/d...
#Writing #WritingCommunity #WritingAdvice #WritingTips #WritingProcess
#Writing #WritingCommunity #WritingAdvice #WritingTips #WritingProcess
Dispatches from the Submissions Process
by Leah Duarte I’ve been submitting my work again. After two years where my focus was on writing, then editing, my own manuscript as well as the WiT Forest Floor anthology, I was accepted into a po…
writersintrees.com
August 24, 2025 at 3:41 AM
"Dispatches from the Submission Process" by Leah Duarte writersintrees.com/2025/08/05/d...
#Writing #WritingCommunity #WritingAdvice #WritingTips #WritingProcess
#Writing #WritingCommunity #WritingAdvice #WritingTips #WritingProcess
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Aspiring & emerging fiction writers in Canada: We have a few spots left for this summer's Q & A workshop. Join me & @adampottle.bsky.social for Summer Scribes 2025!
The event is online and free with registration. annykchoi.com/august-2025/
The event is online and free with registration. annykchoi.com/august-2025/
August 2025
This opportunity is open to all emerging and aspiring authors living in Canada who have not yet published a full-length book or had a professional production. We especially encourage participation …
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July 14, 2025 at 1:04 AM
Aspiring & emerging fiction writers in Canada: We have a few spots left for this summer's Q & A workshop. Join me & @adampottle.bsky.social for Summer Scribes 2025!
The event is online and free with registration. annykchoi.com/august-2025/
The event is online and free with registration. annykchoi.com/august-2025/
Check out some of our favourite #debut novels including @jaustriabonifacio.bsky.social's Reuniting With Strangers.
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Debut Authors SpotLite
Our Debut Author Spotlite features debut books of all genres by authors living in Canada. These books include some of our favourite reads and/or books that we want to read. Our goal is to spotlight…
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July 14, 2025 at 1:13 AM
Check out some of our favourite #debut novels including @jaustriabonifacio.bsky.social's Reuniting With Strangers.
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"I have this urgency to write what is happening, to write about those I loved or love, and to capture their souls in stories that never die."
WiT member Lauren Redwood shares this month's blog post.
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WiT member Lauren Redwood shares this month's blog post.
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Immortality in Writing
By Lauren Redwood For centuries, the publishing of any form has been used to record history and the lives of humans that lived in those periods. We write to express our own emotions, to capture the…
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July 14, 2025 at 1:08 AM
"I have this urgency to write what is happening, to write about those I loved or love, and to capture their souls in stories that never die."
WiT member Lauren Redwood shares this month's blog post.
writersintrees.com/2025/07/12/i...
WiT member Lauren Redwood shares this month's blog post.
writersintrees.com/2025/07/12/i...
They're back! Free Q&A for aspiring & emerging fiction writers in Canada. #SummerScribes
My good friend @annykchoi.bsky.social and I are once again running Summer Scribes! If you’re an emerging author in Canada and you have questions about the writing process, feel free to register at annykchoi.com/august-2025/. It’s free of charge. This is our sixth year running this program! 😁
August 2025
This opportunity is open to all emerging and aspiring authors living in Canada who have not yet published a full-length book or had a professional production. We especially encourage participation …
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June 22, 2025 at 3:32 PM
They're back! Free Q&A for aspiring & emerging fiction writers in Canada. #SummerScribes
"What I’m saying here is this: don’t box yourself under one label. Because you never know what else lurks in that brain of yours if you don’t use it." writersintrees.com/2025/06/13/b...
Balancing the Screenwriter’s and Director’s Voice
by John Bảo I started my writing journey a few years ago as a screenwriter. But becoming represented and selling a script takes time and a lot of finished scripts. So, when the opportunity to direc…
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June 22, 2025 at 3:29 PM
"What I’m saying here is this: don’t box yourself under one label. Because you never know what else lurks in that brain of yours if you don’t use it." writersintrees.com/2025/06/13/b...
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Open to writers across Canada.
May 14, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Open to writers across Canada.
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#ClipOfTheDay: “I wanted to write about a father and daughter in a building made of time.” Madeleine Thien talks about the genealogy of ideas and yearslong process of writing her novel The Book of Records (Norton) in this Toronto Public Library event with Elamin Abdelmahmoud. at.pw.org/Thien
May 15, 2025 at 12:00 AM
#ClipOfTheDay: “I wanted to write about a father and daughter in a building made of time.” Madeleine Thien talks about the genealogy of ideas and yearslong process of writing her novel The Book of Records (Norton) in this Toronto Public Library event with Elamin Abdelmahmoud. at.pw.org/Thien
“What are you going to do with an English degree?”
I took a deep breath, prepared to shrug off the familiar question with another, “I don’t know, I’ll see when I graduate.” But something in me resisted the dismissive answer. writersintrees.com/2025/05/14/t... #Reading #Writing #EmergingWriter #WIT
I took a deep breath, prepared to shrug off the familiar question with another, “I don’t know, I’ll see when I graduate.” But something in me resisted the dismissive answer. writersintrees.com/2025/05/14/t... #Reading #Writing #EmergingWriter #WIT
The Power That Comes With Reading
by Gisele Tang “What are you going to do with an English degree?” I took a deep breath, prepared to shrug off the familiar question with another, “I don’t know, I’ll see when I graduate.” But somet…
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May 15, 2025 at 1:56 AM
“What are you going to do with an English degree?”
I took a deep breath, prepared to shrug off the familiar question with another, “I don’t know, I’ll see when I graduate.” But something in me resisted the dismissive answer. writersintrees.com/2025/05/14/t... #Reading #Writing #EmergingWriter #WIT
I took a deep breath, prepared to shrug off the familiar question with another, “I don’t know, I’ll see when I graduate.” But something in me resisted the dismissive answer. writersintrees.com/2025/05/14/t... #Reading #Writing #EmergingWriter #WIT
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Upcoming events at another story bookshop! In store and offsite. Full details at anotherstory.ca/events and anotherstorybookshop.eventbrite.ca
April 30, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Upcoming events at another story bookshop! In store and offsite. Full details at anotherstory.ca/events and anotherstorybookshop.eventbrite.ca
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Great chatting with Edward Y.C. Lee (The Laundryman’s Boy) & Kath Jonathan (The Resistance Painter), & spotlighting historical fiction by CanLit authors. #gritLIT #HistoricalFiction #RecommendedBooks
April 30, 2025 at 1:38 AM
Great chatting with Edward Y.C. Lee (The Laundryman’s Boy) & Kath Jonathan (The Resistance Painter), & spotlighting historical fiction by CanLit authors. #gritLIT #HistoricalFiction #RecommendedBooks
"I think most writers (and most people) dream about the ability to take a year away from their job or indulge their art without the pressure of financial obligations." writersintrees.com/2025/04/14/a...
A Pulitzer Prize for Your Thoughts
By Chelsea Kowalski There’s a well-known story about the origins of To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee that is something of a writer’s fantasy. Lee was working customer service jobs in New Y…
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April 17, 2025 at 2:55 AM
"I think most writers (and most people) dream about the ability to take a year away from their job or indulge their art without the pressure of financial obligations." writersintrees.com/2025/04/14/a...