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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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May. 28 2026
Stuart Ross
Vallum Chapbooks has just published Shooky Sessions 2: Franz Kafka, The Blue Octavo Notebooks, 12 May 2023, Parc Trenholme, by Jason Camlot and me. All the info is here. Further sections of this project will be released by other chapbook publishers.
