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The Union is pleased to announce the winners of the 2025 Danuta Gleed Literary Award and the 2026 Short Prose Competition for Emerging Writers.
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Ian Williams
Poet and Fiction Writer (Photo: Justin Morris)
More than ever, as isolation threatens to become the norm, I appreciate how the Writers' Union preserves a community of writers.
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Heather Conn
Heather Conn’s memoir No Letter in Your Pocket (Guernica Editions 2023) is now available as an audiobook on Spotify, Kobo, Google Play Audio, Amazon and other sites. It’s free with a trial on Audible. Dr. Bernie Siegel, who wrote the book’s afterword, says, “We can all benefit by reading about, and…
