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Writers & Company launches a special series on the Nordic imagination
Over four episodes, Eleanor Wachtel will explore the popularity of Nordic fiction through interviews with Hans Rosenfeldt, Karl Ove Knausgaard, Dorthe Nors and Hallgrimur Helgason.
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How I Wrote It
Elisabeth de Mariaffi on the importance of giving herself the space to write
The author of thriller novel Hysteria shares the inspirations that keep her writing.
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Enter the CBC Poetry Prize now
You could win $6,000 from the Canada Council for the Arts, attend a 10-day writing residency at the Banff Centre and have your work published on CBC Books. Enter by May 31, 2018.

The 2018 Shakespeare Selfie Student Writing Challenge is now open for submissions
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Writers & Company
The haunting world of Nordic noir, with Hans Rosenfeldt
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Poetry Month
Why we can count on poetry, according to Griffin Poetry Prize finalist Donato Mancini
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Canadian students win $25,000 national poetry competition
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Gail Bowen among finalists for 2018 Arthur Ellis crime writing awards
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Poetry Month
9 must-read Canadian poetry for children and young adults
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Poetry Month
Joshua Whitehead on poetry's radical, survivalist nature
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How I Wrote It
How a trip to Sweden inspired long-time nonfiction author Katherine Ashenburg to write her first novel
Samraweet Yohannes
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How I Wrote It
How confronting body image issues inspired Mallory Tater's debut poetry collection
Samraweet Yohannes
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Guy Delisle, Joe Ollmann among 2018 Doug Wright Award finalists, which recognize the best in Canadian comics
Jane van Koeverden
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The bestselling books in Canada: April 8 to April 14, 2018
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Poetry Month
Where award-winning writer Gregory Scofield finds the power in poetry
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CBC Literary Prizes
Leah Mol wins the 2018 CBC Short Story Prize
Dionne Codrington
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Magic 8 Q&A
Why Jeff Latosik believes poetry can be 'chaotic and hard to chart'

Ryan B. Patrick
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How Alan Kurdi's family are turning their grief into a fight to help refugees
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My Life in Books
7 books and poems that inspire Governor General's Literary Award-winning poet Richard Harrison

Ryan B. Patrick
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Magic 8 Q&A
Why poet Najwa Zebian shredded her first writing journal

Ryan B. Patrick
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Reporting on #MeToo, California wildfires and the U.S. election wins Pulitzer Prizes
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How I Wrote It
Griffin Poetry Prize finalist Donato Mancini explores the nature of changing language in his latest collection

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Video
Once Upon a Time: Storybook Project maintains bonds between inmate mothers, children

Andrea Ross
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Poetry Month
Canisia Lubrin on how poetry orients us to 'the complexities of life'
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