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September 30, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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Code Noir by Canisia Lubrin is the Winner of The 2025 Carol Shields Prize for Fiction
Code Noir by Canisia Lubrin is the Winner of The 2025 Carol Shields Prize for Fiction (Knopf Canada/Soft Skull Press). The $150,000USD award is the largest English-language literary prize in the world for women and non-binary authors. Learn more: carolshieldsprizeforfiction.com/2025-winner
May 2, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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Congratulations to Canisia Lubrin, the 2025 winner of The Carol Shields Prize for Fiction 👏

Lubrin's novel, Code Noir, "breaks new ground in fiction," the jury said.

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Canisia Lubrin Wins Carol Shields Prize for Fiction
Canisia Lubrin, professor and coordinator of the University of Guelph’s Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing, is the 2025 winner of The Carol Shields Prize for Fiction. Lubrin won for her novel…
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May 2, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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Canisia Lubrin wins the $150,000 Carol Sields Prize for her brilliant book Code Noir. So chuffed for her! carolshieldsprize.bsky.social
The Carol Shields Prize For Fiction (@carolshieldsprize.bsky.social)
The first major English-language literary award to celebrate creativity & excellence in fiction by women and non-binary writers in Canada and the US. https://carolshieldsprizeforfiction.com/
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May 2, 2025 at 12:20 AM
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Our VA therapists aren't allowed to text or email us anymore.
Everything we say in therapy is potentially sent to MAGA DOGE, the anti-Patriots.
I rely on the VA to survive now I need an alternative to survive. Dead vets are cheaper than alive ones.

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'I cannot guarantee complete confidentiality,' VA therapists ordered to tell veterans
Mental health therapists at Veterans Affairs should begin sessions with patients saying they are in a shared office space, a memo obtained by NPR says. Trump's back-to-office orders start Monday for V...
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April 13, 2025 at 12:35 AM
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But he’s insulated from reality by sycophants - “you’ve got the markets seeing your brilliance” bsky.app/profile/atru...
Trump on the markets: "Up 2500 points. Nobody has ever heard of it. Gotta be a record."
April 9, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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There’s also the bit when his battered Wall Street spouses are so pathetically grateful he’s stopped hitting them that they bake him a cake
April 9, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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He does something stupid -> pressure -> he folds -> he forgets how bad it was -> he does something stupid… every week for four years?
April 9, 2025 at 6:44 PM
April 7, 2025 at 12:31 AM
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A escritora Dionne Brand compartilha a sua leitura do "Ensaio sobre a Lucidez", de José Saramago, no podcast do portal Literary Hub lithub.com/dionne-brand...
Dionne Brand on José Saramago’s Seeing
The Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast features a series of conversations with past and present Windham-Campbell Prize winners about their favorite books and plays. Hosted by Michael Kelleher. Mike ch…
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February 27, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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Anyone who happened to know that the White House would announce and then suspend tariffs within 24 hours just made a boatload of money.
February 3, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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sometimes the books you need come right at the time the world demands it
Save 30% on #NewBook "Five Manifestos for the Beautiful World," which brings five artists, thinkers, & writers from different geographies and disciplines—Phoebe Boswell, Saidiya Hartman, Janaína Oliveira, Joseph M. Pierce, Cristina Rivera Garza—who propose new ways of being.
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January 14, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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"If conquest, slavery and colonization of lands and people are the main aim, mythologizing and control of the imagination are the equally important conduit to this end."
—Dionne Brand, Salvage: Readings from the Wreck
November 16, 2024 at 12:18 AM
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in case you're thinking hey I'll move to canada please note that quebec recently froze temporary immigration, would like to deport immigrants to other provinces, and even if you qualify normally it's currently deadlocked taking three years plus

there isn't an exit to this moment
November 6, 2024 at 11:18 PM
Deleted the other account. Moved this one here as well.
November 6, 2024 at 11:19 PM