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  Northwest Passages - Canadian Literature Online bookstore! We ship worldwide.
The Journey Prize itself is the most significant monetary award given in Canada to a writer at the beginning of his or her career for a short story or excerpt from a fiction work in progress.
The Pat Lowther Memorial Award is given for a book of poetry by a Canadian woman published in the preceding year, and is in memory of the late Pat Lowther, whose career was cut short by her untimely death in 1975.
QWF (Quebec Writers' Federation) was born when members of FEWQ (Federation of English Writers of Quebec) and QSPELL (Quebec Society for the Promotion of English Language Literature) voted in 1998 to unite their activities.
www.nwpassages.com /awards.asp   (2768 words)

  
  List of Canadian writers - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This is a list of Canadian literary figures, including poets, novelists, children's writers, essayists, and scholars.
Phyllis Gotlieb (born 1926), poet and science-fiction writer
List of French Canadian writers from outside Quebec
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_Canadian_writers   (1006 words)

  
 List of Lists
List of Canadian Ministers of Manpower and Immigration
List of Chancellors of the University of Cambridge
List of Chancellors of the University of Mississippi
www.starrepublic.org /encyclopedia/wikipedia/l/li/listoflists.html   (2023 words)

  
 Wikipedia: Literature of Canada
It cannot be described as malicious (although at Canadian literature's beginning, re-invasion by the U.S. was a legitimate fear), but is better seen as mild sibling rivalry, and may tie in with Canada's loyalty to the underdog as opposed to the haughty hero, two roles played by Canada and the U.S in Canadian mythology.
Canadians have been known to be good at laughing at themselves, which ties in nicely with their ability for satire and humour.
Arguably, the best-internationally-known living Canadian writer (especially after the recent passing of Canadian greats, Robertson Davies and Timothy Findley) is Margaret Atwood, a prolific novelist, poet, and literary critic.
www.factbook.org /wikipedia/en/l/li/literature_of_canada.html   (1807 words)

  
 GuruNet — Content Map
List of Canadian provinces and territories by area
List of Canadian provinces and territories by population
List of Canadian senators who resigned and were elected to the House of Commons
www.gurunet.com /cm-dsname-Wikipedia-dsid-2222-letter-1L-first-17001   (161 words)

  
 forwriters.com
The Missouri Writers' Guild was established in 1917, and is the statewide professional writing organization for Missouri and Missouri-affiliated writers of all genres.
The Writer's Center is more than just a writers group, with a writers and editors registry, workshops and a host of other resources on their web site and in their facility in the Washington D.C. area.
Writer's Garret is a full featured group with a broad range of services for writers in the north Texas area.
www.forwriters.com /groups.html   (2828 words)

  
 CTV.ca - Canadian writers on short list for Impac prize- CTV News, Shows and Sports -- Canadian Television
The short list was announced Tuesday by the Lord Mayor of Dublin, patron of the award, and the winner will be announced June 15.
Itani's book, a regional winner of the Commonwealth Writers Prize, portrays the world of the deaf in a story about "love between generations, between siblings, between friends and between partners in marriage.'' Itani, who wrote the novel as a tribute to her deaf grandmother, lives in Ottawa.
Canadian author Nino Ricci was on the judging panel.
www.ctv.ca /servlet/ArticleNews/print/CTVNews/1110294140479_63?hub=Canada&subhub=PrintStory   (241 words)

  
 ULA -- "Underground Literary Alliance"   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
The judges of this year’s Giller are Charlotte Gray (an Ontario writer previously nominated for the Governor General’s award), Alistair McLeod (a professor of English and Creative writing in Windsor, judge of the CBC Literary Awards in 2002 and another resident of Ontario), and MG.
Previous Giller winners come from that small, but endlessly mentioned, list of ‘great’ Canadian writers: Mordecai Richler, Michael Ondaatje and, perhaps the most fawned over of Canadian authors, Margaret Atwood - who received her award with an incredibly pompous statement that in one short phrase typifies all her work: ‘Prizes are apples of discord’.
Alice Munro is on the list this year as well and of the five books in the final running, 4 are from central Canadian writers.
timeliketoons.tripod.com /ULA/monday/monday.1.31.05.lm.htm   (1183 words)

  
 Canadian Literature Links
The League of Canadian Poets is national organization service published and practising poets in Canada.
A large selection of contemporary and 19th century Canadian poets with biographies, bibliographies, and general information presented by the University of Toronto English Library.
Quoted from site "Studies in Canadian Literature/Études en littérature canadienne (SCL/ÉLC) is a biannual, bilingual journal devoted to the study of Canadian literature in English and French, and published at the University of New Brunswick in Fredericton.
www.suite101.com /links.cfm/canadian_literature   (924 words)

  
 List of Canada-related topics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
List of elections in the Province of Canada
List of the 100 largest cities in Canada
List of the 100 largest metropolitan areas in Canada
www.peacelink.de /keyword/List_of_Canada-related_topics.php   (135 words)

  
 il Congresso
These ethnic writers are producing a literature that emerges directly from the creative instinct to capture feelings, memories and difficult migration experiences on paper.
This brief review of Italian-Canadian writers will try to show that, for the most part, they are motivated by the natural desires of the artist and not by political ideologies or missions of social reform.
In Toronto an early writer is Francesco Gualtieri who brought out a brief ethnic history, We Italians: A Study of Italian Immigration in Canada (1928), and some collections of poems in English: Songs of Solitude (1920), The Swing of the Soul (1923), Harbors (1924), The Sonnets of Triumph (1925).
www.albertasource.ca /abitalian/illcongresso/articles/ilcongresso88b.htm   (1620 words)

  
 Canadian Writers since 1960: First Series   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
The Canadian volumes of DLB have been a long time appearing, and not all entries are equally up to date.
Critics of early Canadian literature face a peculiar problem: we often have to produce persuasive readings of pre-modern texts without undergoing the salutary experience encountered by critics of Tennyson or Hawthorne -- being stared down by the baleful eye of the writer's original readership.
The positive side of this is that it forces the contemporary Canadian reader (probably youthful, and certainly a student or scholar) to acknowledge that the literary past we still tend to repudiate can't be set aside quite that easily.
www.utpjournals.com /product/utq/581/581_review_warkentin.html   (1299 words)

  
 Copyright Board of Canada : Copyright Collective Societies
Its purpose is to act on behalf of the producers as a collective society for the management and distribution of royalties deriving from the sale of blank audiovisual media ("blank tape levies") and from the rental and lending of video recordings.
The Canadian Broadcasters Rights Agency (CBRA) claims royalties for programming, compilations and signals owned by commercial radio and television stations and networks in Canada, including CTV, TVA and Quatre-Saisons networks and their affiliates, the Global Television Network, independent television stations and the privately-owned affiliates of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) and Société Radio-Canada (SRC).
The Canadian Retransmission Right Association (CRRA) is an association representing certain broadcasters, i.e.: the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), the American Broadcasting Company (ABC), the National Broadcasting Company (NBC), the Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) and Télé-Québec with respect to their interests as copyright owners of radio and television programming retransmitted as distant signals in Canada.
www.cb-cda.gc.ca /societies/index-e.html   (2072 words)

  
 Canadian Writers
Writers love to read about writing, both for pleasure and to perfect their techniques.
New writers as well as many writers who operate from home already could benefit from this advice.
The book ends with a writer's resource section that includes lists of organizations, Canadian contests, workshops, retreats and courses, literary agents, and grants available to writers.
www.absolutewrite.com /novels/canadian_writers.htm   (491 words)

  
 Blogs Canada : Canada's Blog Site
We also carry general news headlines from CBC in the Canadian and World news categories as well as Entertainment and Science news.
The BlogsCanada Monthly Top Ten Blogs list is a great place to find some of the best blogs that Canada has to offer.
Unlike most top blogs lists, our Top Ten list is compiled by a panel of human jurors selecting from Top Blogs Nominations made by blog readers.
www.blogscanada.ca   (397 words)

  
 furry.ca IM: the Canadian furry IM users' list
Please proceed to the citizens list on the main furry.ca site in order to find a current list of Canadian furries.
This list is shut down for the simple fact that it's redundant to maintain two related listings on the same site.
This list is primarily intended as a collection of Instant Messaging identities of furries that are residents of the nation of Canada.
www.furry.ca /im   (128 words)

  
 A Celebration of Women Writers
Writers who lived in more than one country may be included in multiple listings.
A writer who lived primarily in one country, but wrote works relevant to another country, may also be listed under both.
Listings by ethnic group are a new addition to the Celebration, so our information is currently quite limited.
digital.library.upenn.edu /women/writers.html   (1408 words)

  
 Canadian Student Writing Resources
A constantly growing list of recordings by contemporary poets, such as bill bissett, George Elliott Clarke, Terrance Cox, Rudyard Fearon, Clive Holden, Catherine Hunter, Penn Kemp, Patrick Lane, Susan McMaster, Pamela Porter, Al Purdy, Ricardo Sternberg, Robert Sward, Todd Swift, John Terpstra, and Sheri-D Wilson.
The writers, who are all well-known Canadian authors, join classrooms electronically to read and consider the students' work, offer reactions and ideas, and guide discussions between the students.
A SASE of suitable size, with enough postage, is required to mail you the contest rules, an entry form, or a list of winners, and to return your manuscript.
www3.sympatico.ca /susanio/WWCcomp.html   (2724 words)

  
 CAA - Links - Canadian Writers
This is not an extensive list and is not intended to be an index of Canadian writers.
Canadian Writers: some of Canada's most celebrated writers presented by Library and Archives Canada.
The Canadian Literature Archive - Authors List a project of the English Department at the University of Manitoba.
www.canauthors.org /links/writers.html   (260 words)

  
 Graeme Gibson   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
Graeme C. Gibson (born 1934) is a Canadian novelist who lives in Toronto, Ontario.
He is a member of the Order of Canada (1992), and was one of the organizers of the Writer's Union of Canada (chair 1974-5).
See also: List of Canadian writers, Canadian literature.
www.enlightenweb.net /g/gr/graeme_gibson.html   (56 words)

  
 Canadian Writer's Journal ~Canada's Magazine for Writers
Dedicated apprentice and professional writers use the information they find in Canadian Writer's Journal to acquire the edge they use on their way to publication.
Many first-time writers got their start in the Canadian Writer's Journal because we are looking for terrific material, not reputation.
New listings for Canadian writing-related Conferences is being developed.
www.cwj.ca   (634 words)

  
 The Terry Fox Hometown Run   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
And during Pearson's tenure as prime minister we got a new Canadian flag, and the Canada Assistance Plan, the Canada Pension Plan and medicare were introduced.
I've read maybe half her books, I'm not a huge fan, but she tops the list of significant Canadian writers.
She also was wise enough to stick up for Saskatchewan's Percy Schmeiser in her minority report this year in the Supreme Court decision on Percy Schmeiser vs. Monsanto.
www.eccw.com /terryfox/news061104-01.html   (530 words)

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