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group name: canlit
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July 06, 2007 10:08 AM EDT --
The basics?
July 17 - 22, 2007
Leacock Museum, Orillia, Ontario
The Leacock Festival offers writers an opportunity to share their work. Perhaps more importantly, it offers readers opportunities to meet . . .
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July 05, 2007 11:20 AM EDT --
This is a repost - if you've seen it already, my apologies :)
I have some work re: Canadian Literature in my other account that I want to post into my new CanLit group.
I am so excited about the . . .
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July 27, 2007 04:31 PM EDT --
Exile Editions, which produces a quarterly literary magazine, as well as publishing other works, presented in two sessions during . . .
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July 05, 2007 05:06 PM EDT --
Are you a Canadian writer, whether published yet or not? Would you like to be? Or, even, are you just doin' what needs doin' to get through a creative writing course?
Do you have . . .
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July 18, 2007 01:38 PM EDT --
The sky is pinks and purples
with streaks of grayish blue;
reflected colours in the water moving
steadily towards the shore
disturbed only by the splash
of the large fish that taunts us daily
jumping . . .
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July 20, 2007 11:05 AM EDT --
David Staines is a Canadian literary critic, university professor, writer, and editor. He has taught at Harvard and elsewhere, and is now a professor of English at the University of Ottawa. Staines . . .
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August 08, 2007 06:19 PM EDT --
Wayne Johnson was one of the authors I met at last month's Leacock Festival - and the only one whose book I actually bought. There were others I wanted to buy, but I was trying to behave...but I just . . .
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July 05, 2007 04:24 PM EDT --
A Fine Balance, a novel by Rohinton Mistry, contains stories of people being discriminated against, abused, maimed, murdered, and in some cases driven to suicide. There is much despair throughout . . .
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July 16, 2007 09:15 PM EDT --
How did she do that? I think that was the only discordant note in the song that makes up Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet - the fact that every once in a while, I noticed the cover and remembered again that . . .
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July 18, 2007 12:57 AM EDT --
Gotta love kids - and the trouble they get into!
French Fries is a short story I wrote about one of the more ~charming~ adventures my little darlings put me through - the longest 3 minutes of my life! . . .
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July 18, 2007 01:55 PM EDT --
Giller Prize winners of the future, reading as part of the Laurentian Student Showcase.
It could happen! Last year at the Leacock Festival's Humber School for Writers' Showcase event, . . .
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July 05, 2007 04:18 PM EDT --
The narrators of The Diviners and Surfacing are engaged in the process of recreating their lives or "re/membering" their identities by working through childhood memories. In both cases, the authors . . .
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July 15, 2007 01:51 PM EDT --
The Leacock Festival officially opens Wednesday evening with an event featuring readings by Wayne Johnston, John Steffler, and Alissa York.
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July 15, 2007 04:01 PM EDT --
Tomorrow's Festival events begin with the Leacock Lecture & Tea at 2 pm. Those interested in the work of Stephen Leacock will find this particularly engaging as author, editor . . .
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July 15, 2007 10:34 PM EDT --
The Leacock Festival is ending but there are still plenty of events to enjoy! Sunday will be the busiest day of the Festival.
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July 20, 2007 12:24 AM EDT --
It was Newfoundland night at the Leacock Festival - well, not really - and it wasn't intentional - but it worked out that way, since both John Steffler and Wayne Johnson have ties there. All three . . .
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July 20, 2007 02:15 PM EDT --
The Leacock Festival Letters Dinner was held on Thursday, July 19, 2007 at Swanmore Hall. It, like all events so far this year, was very well attended and thoroughly enjoyed by all. Dinner included . . .
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July 04, 2007 11:26 PM EDT --
Developing one’s style as a writer is an ongoing process. Writing is a craft; it can be learned, and – if one is motivated . . .
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July 15, 2007 09:03 PM EDT --
Tomorrow will be a very busy day at the Leacock Festival with something for everyone.
At noon, Governor-General's Award winner Nino Ricci, author of Lives of the Saints and other books, will . . .
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