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I’m confused. Ottawa Book Awards were announced at the same ceremony as the Lampman-Scott Award. But who won the latter? The Arc site just points to the City site. And why does the Ottawa site just have a blank for the French fiction winner?

Ottawa Sneezers (quick arts news in the time it would take to sneeze) has my mug/book on the cover. Woo. Catapults (nearly) away for the been shed bore launch Oct 7th at Dusty Owl with Bernadette Wagner reading from this hot place.

This poem at Jubilat has my curiosity up. Who is this Arielle Greenberg? Making a mental note to find more by her and sit a while. SPD has some listing, including one coming in a couple months. I am vaguely familiar with her name (Funny what it takes to get to that point) and the […]

Compose the Holes at Lemon Hound pointed to some erasure texts. I recently ran across this one by daniel scott tysdal from Acts of Barbarity and Vandalism (Martian Press, 2006) which is downloadable. He is overlaying text in text yet not erasing but refuting with the text with the substance of itself. You can still […]

Sean Wilson hosting John Lavery (Sandra Beck, Anansi), Sandra Birdsell ( Waiting for Joe, Random House), and David Bergen (The Matter with Morris, Phyllis Bruce Books) on panel about novels with family ties at the Ottawa Writers Festival on Oct 24. Today is poetry day with the John Newlove Poetry Award at Southminister United Church […]