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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K.V. Johansen
The book launch for K. V. Johansen's sword and sorcery novel Breath and Bone (published by Candlemark and Gleam) will take place as at TriCon (the Trident Conference for Speculative Fiction) in Halifax. A long-retired swordswoman, saviour of godlings and killer of emperors, takes to the road again…


