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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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Kevin Chong
Fiction and Nonfiction Writer (Photo: Andrew Querner)
I wouldn't want to think of the kind of literary landscape we would be inhabiting without TWUC, and can only wishfully imagine the good work that could be accomplished if every Canadian writer became a part of it.
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Mark Abley
Mark Abley's short book "Numb: The Politics of Overwhelm" was published by Baraka Books in June 2026, and launched with two events in Montreal and one in eastern Ontario.
