Short List Announced
The Union is please to announce the short list of nominees for the 29th annual Danuta Gleed Literary Award.
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Sarah Tsiang
Poet and Children’s Writer (Photo: Jane Kerrison)
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Emma McKenna
In this candid and moving collection, Emma McKenna explores the multifaceted themes of bodily autonomy, capturing the empowerment of queer femme identity.Drawn from the experience of growing up in poverty in a single-parent home and escaping to the city at the age of sixteen, these poems look at the…
