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Prairie books NOW is a widely-read publication dedicated to promoting books by Prairie publishers and writers.

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“As Métis women, we’ve often been expected to mediate and negotiate, but we don’t necessarily get credit for what we bring and know and do," says Markides.⁠⁠ Read more about AROUND THE KITCHEN TABLE, edited by Laura Forsythe and Jennifer Markides at prairiebooksnow.ca.
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Our Spring/Summer issue is out now, and you can read all the articles online or look through the magazine as a pdf. We hope you find some summer reading inspiration in this issue! prairiebooksnow.ca/articles/…
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Hey, SK writers! 🌟 Did you know you can apply for a SK Arts Independent Artist Grant to support attendance at Sage Hill?! The next SK Arts IA deadline is coming up on March 15th! For more info visit: sk-arts.ca/grants/grants-by-… @saskarts
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So here's the call for submissions for this year's Writes of Spring, which this year is #Winnipeg150 project. (Every year, we're grateful for the support of @WPGTHINAIR & @WinnipegNews.) Julian Day is this year's co-editor, so send us your best short theme-appropriate poems!
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🌟 Join Our Team! 🌟 The Indigenous Editors Association is currently hiring for the position of Executive Director! For more details about the position and how to apply, please visit our website: IndigenousEditorsAssociation… #IndigenousVoices #ExecutiveDirector #JoinOurTeam
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“They’re uncanny, they’re compelling – we might describe them generally as kind of surrealist,” says Serena Keshavjee about the Hamilton seance photos. Check out @PrairieBooksNOW to read more about these 100 year old photos that mesmerize us to this day. prairiebooksnow.ca/articles/…
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Check out some great features on @JackPinePress , @Radiant_Press and Editions De La Nouvelle Plume!
The Spring/Summer issue of Prairie books NOW is available to read online, and is making its way across Manitoba, Alberta, and Saskatchewan as well.⁠ ⁠ You can read each article individually, or flip through the pdf if you prefer a print-like experience: prairiebooksnow.ca/
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Thank you @PrairieBooksNOW! Edmonton professor’s essays an introspective addition to pandemic time capsule prairiebooksnow.ca/articles/…
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Check out this interview with Debbie Patterson on the upcoming How It Ends!
Debbie Patterson, How It Ends (@PlayCanPress) “With this play, I really wanted to help the audience begin to contemplate their own deaths ... there’s a lot of growth and transformation possible through the contemplation of one’s own mortality.” prairiebooksnow.ca/articles/…
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Paying attention to reality. This is exactly what Sixty-Seven Ontological Studies achieves. Read Jan Zwicky and Robert V. Moody's remarks in @PrairieBooksNOW
"In composing the poems, I was attempting to pay attention to reality, and it seems to me that this is very much what Robert achieves with his photographs: attention to reality.” -Jan Zwicky, Sixty-Seven Ontological Studies (@FHBooks) prairiebooksnow.ca/articles/…
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Tomorrow Friends! Looks to be a great conversation. (& hosted by @sarah_ens!)
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Submissions for the 2023 @RBC #BronwenWallace Award for #EmergingWriters are open. Submit your poetry & short fiction for the chance to win $10,000. Finalists in each genre receive $2,500. Deadline to apply is January 16. Details at writerstrust.com/BronwenWall…
Read Margaret Goldik's review of LIVES LIVED, LIVES IMAGINED and conversation with author Sabrina Reed for the latest issue of @PrairieBooksNOW! LIVES LIVED, LIVES IMAGINED launches tonight, 7pm at @mcnallyrobinson. ⁠ prairiebooksnow.ca/articles/…
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ICYMI! @LeslieGreentree on the power of short stories, writing flawed, failing people, and NOT THE APOCALYPSE I WAS HOPING FOR in @PrairieBooksNOW! ow.ly/pz0g50LL6p7
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"Bless them all, the apex predators, & the people who see that carnivorous creatures and their habitat are sacred.” Check out this interview with David Carpenter in @PrairieBooksNOW where he talks about hunting, monsters, & his new book of essays: prairiebooksnow.ca/articles/…
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Another new one of mine from @PrairieBooksNOW Archival deep dive into Ukrainian family history considers settler narrative Led by photographs and bolstered by research, but Myrna Kostash writes herself in as well prairiebooksnow.ca/articles/… -- #yeg #yegwriter #books
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One of my latest @PrairieBooksNOW : Posthumous collection of writing, interviews an indictment of prison system Editor hopes collection will serve to humanize ‘people who tend to be reduced to a label’ prairiebooksnow.ca/articles/… -- #yeg #yegwriter #books #librarytwitter
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