What the Living Do (FriesenPress, September 2018)Until the age of twelve, Georgia Lee Kay-Stern believed she was Jewish — the story of her Cree birth family had been kept secret. Now she’s living on her own and attending first year university, and with her adoptive parents on sabbatical in Costa...
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Feb. 13 2019 Unauthorized “Controlled Digital Lending” is a violation of authors’ rights. The Writers’ Union of Canada (TWUC) has joined with 36 other creator, publisher, and agent groups in an... More
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Jan. 23 2019 The Writers’ Union of Canada (TWUC) is seeking an Editor for its quarterly member-magazine Write. The position is open to members of TWUC (with the exception of those... More
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Jan. 23 2019 Unlicensed lending of scanned books violates authors’ rights, and damages the marketplace. The Writers’ Union of Canada (TWUC) joins with our partner organizations, the U.S. Authors Guild... More
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Dec. 5 2018 The Writers' Union of Canada (TWUC) is pleased to launch its 26th Annual Short Prose Competition for Emerging Writers, which invites Canadian writers to submit a piece of fiction or nonfiction of up... More
