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CBC Literary Prizes
Natalie Lim from Vancouver wins the 2018 CBC Poetry Prize for Arrhythmia
Lim will receive $6,000 from the Canada Council for the Arts and a writing residency at the Banff Centre. Read her poem, Arrhythmia, now.
CBC Massey Lectures
The Massey Lectures air this week on CBC Radio
Prize-winning journalist Tanya Talaga (author of Seven Fallen Feathers) explores the legacy of cultural genocide against Indigenous peoples — in Canada and elsewhere — in her 2018 CBC Massey Lectures, All Our Relations: Finding the Path Forward.
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