Here's the skinny: In 2016, my partner and I sold our 155-year-old stone cottage on Facebook. We shoved everything into a shipping container and assumed our new postal code would be romantically adjacent to a pinot noir vineyard in Prince Edward County, Ontario. Instead, our forwarding address (for...
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Jan. 8 2020 The Writers’ Union of Canada (TWUC) is pleased to officially launch a new set of membership criteria, expanded to recognize and respect the many ways authors learn and develop their craft, and to... More
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Dec. 12 2019 Ottawa — The Writers’ Union of Canada (TWUC) welcomes a recent ruling from the Copyright Board of Canada, which set rates for the large amount of copying done by post-secondary institutions in Canada... More
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Dec. 3 2019 The Writers’ Union of Canada (TWUC) calls on the new federal government to act immediately with repairs to a broken marketplace for Canadian books. Recent reports[i] indicate a 50% drop in sales for... More
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Nov. 25 2019 The Writers' Union of Canada invites submissions to its 27th annual Short Prose Competition for Emerging Writers. Unpublished works of fiction and nonfiction up to 2,500 words in English are eligible... More
