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Update on Victoria’s Pride and the Word: Amber Dawn, Arleen Pare, Janet Rogers, and More!
I wrote last week about some awesome Toronto Pride literary events, and am excited to report the list of performers at Victoria Pride’s event “Pride and the Word” have been anounced. None other than recent Ogilvie Prize winner Amber Dawn … Continue reading
Posted in Amber Dawn, Canadian, Erotica, Fiction, Gay, Indigenous, Lesbian, News, Poetry, Queer, Victoria
Tagged Amber Dawn, Arleen Pare, book events, Gillian Cornwall, Janet Marie Rogers, pride, Victoria Pride
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Daphne Marlatt to be Awarded Lifetime Acheivement Award Tonight in Vancouver
Daphne Marlatt is a true Canadian queer feminist legend, and she’s getting the recognition she deserves tonight at the Vancouver public library, where she’ll be honoured with the George Woodcock Lifetime Acheivement Award. This award is given to British Columbia … Continue reading
Posted in Canadian, Daphne Marlatt, Lesbian, News, Poetry, Queer, Vancouver
Tagged Canadian authors, Canadian poetry, Daphne Marlatt, news, poetry, Vancouver
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Happy Victoria and Toronto Pride! Some Literary Events for Queer Book Nerds
For those of us book-inclined queer folks, pride season not only means parades and general fuzzy feelings of being surrounded by queer family, but awesome literary events featuring some of the best in queer writing, storytelling, theatre, poetry, and more. Canadian … Continue reading
Posted in Canadian, Farzana Doctor, Kristyn Dunnion, Lesbian, News, Queer, Toronto, Transgender, Victoria
Tagged book events, Farzana Doctor, Kristyn Dunnion, Nalo Hopkinson, Nina Arsenault, pride, proud voices, Toronto, Victoria
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Amber Dawn Wins This Year’s Ogilvie Prize for Emerging LGBTQ writer
This just in: Amber Dawn has been selected as this year’s Dayne Ogilive Prize winner, an annual prize given by the Writer’s Trust of Canada to an emerging LGBTQ writer. Congratulations to Amber Dawn, whose novel Sub Rosa was the … Continue reading
Posted in Amber Dawn, Canadian, Graphic, Lesbian, Mariko Tamaki, News, Queer, Sex Work
Tagged Amber Dawn, Canadian Literature, Lesbian Literature, Mariko Tamiki, Ogilvie Prze, Queer Literature
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