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Writers In Trees

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Our goal is to support & empower emerging writers across Canada. Visit our website to learn more. writersintrees.com

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Coach House Books @coachhousebooks.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
The 2025 Wayzgoose is rapidly approaching! On Thurs, Sept 4, join us from 5 PM ’til LATE at the coach house, with a very special diamond anniversary toast at 8 PM. RSVP to let us know you’re just as excited as we are: www.eventbrite.ca/e/wayzgoose-...
A photo of the Coach House Books crew behind a table of books!A photo of people celebrating outside the coach house.
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Arc Poetry Magazine @arcpoetry.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
We are thrilled to announce the finalists for the 2025 Lampman Award, recognizing outstanding poetry from brilliant Ottawa-based poets: Emily Austin's “Gay Girl Prayers,” Manahil Bandukwala's “Heliotropia,” and AJ Dolman's “Crazy/Mad.” Stay tuned for details about the winner announcement this fall!
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JUNCTION READS @junctionreads.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
Registration is open for ALL our events in Season 12! Grab your free ticket, or pay what you can to support our authors. Reserve space for us in your calendars. We'd be so grateful! junctionreads.ca/upcoming-sch...
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Upcoming Events
Junction Reads in-person events take place at TYPE Books in the Junction (a physically accessible space). We livestream our events through Zoom. Our online events take place once per month via Zoom…
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Paul Vermeersch @paulvermeersch.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
ONE MONTH AWAY! I'd love it if you could join me to celebrate the launch of NMLCT: poems Wed, Sept 24, 2025 at The Piston 937 Bloor Street West, from 7 to 10pm [festivities included] I look forward to celebrating with you! Sincerely, Paul Vermeersch
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Ann Y.K. Choi @annykchoi.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
Check out Thomas King's new novel title! Love that it's next to my novel, All Things Under the Moon. Thanks CBC Books for including my book on your list of #CanadianFiction to read this fall. See the full list www.cbc.ca/books/fictio... #CanadianAuthors #AllThingsUnderTheMoon #AnnYKChoi
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Arc Poetry Magazine @arcpoetry.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
Announcing the 2025 Tamarack Prize & Critics’ Desk Award winners. The Tamarack Prize has been awarded to Nwuguru Chidiebere Sullivan for “The Smoke Signals a Migrant Returning.” The Critics' Desk Award goes to two brilliant writers: Natalie Hanna and Jane Shi.
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Jozef Imrich @jozefimrich.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
Denmark eliminates 25% book tax to combat declining reading boingboing.net/2025/08/22/d...
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Denmark eliminates 25% book tax to combat declining reading skills
Denmark is eliminating its 25% book tax after finding reading skills in steep decline. Culture Minister Engel-Schmidt: "The gift of reading is something we should give to younger generations."
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Writers In Trees @writersintrees.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
"Dispatches from the Submission Process" by Leah Duarte writersintrees.com/2025/08/05/d... #Writing #WritingCommunity #WritingAdvice #WritingTips #WritingProcess
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Dispatches from the Submissions Process
by Leah Duarte I’ve been submitting my work again. After two years where my focus was on writing, then editing, my own manuscript as well as the WiT Forest Floor anthology, I was accepted into a po…
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Ann Y.K. Choi @annykchoi.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
Aspiring & emerging fiction writers in Canada: We have a few spots left for this summer's Q & A workshop. Join me & @adampottle.bsky.social for Summer Scribes 2025! The event is online and free with registration. annykchoi.com/august-2025/
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August 2025
This opportunity is open to all emerging and aspiring authors living in Canada who have not yet published a full-length book or had a professional production. We especially encourage participation …
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Writers In Trees @writersintrees.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
Check out some of our favourite #debut novels including @jaustriabonifacio.bsky.social's Reuniting With Strangers. writersintrees.com/wit-plus/wit...
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Debut Authors SpotLite
Our Debut Author Spotlite features debut books of all genres by authors living in Canada. These books include some of our favourite reads and/or books that we want to read. Our goal is to spotlight…
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Writers In Trees @writersintrees.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
"I have this urgency to write what is happening, to write about those I loved or love, and to capture their souls in stories that never die." WiT member Lauren Redwood shares this month's blog post. writersintrees.com/2025/07/12/i...
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Immortality in Writing
By Lauren Redwood For centuries, the publishing of any form has been used to record history and the lives of humans that lived in those periods. We write to express our own emotions, to capture the…
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Writers In Trees @writersintrees.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
They're back! Free Q&A for aspiring & emerging fiction writers in Canada. #SummerScribes
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Writers In Trees @writersintrees.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
"What I’m saying here is this: don’t box yourself under one label. Because you never know what else lurks in that brain of yours if you don’t use it." writersintrees.com/2025/06/13/b...
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Balancing the Screenwriter’s and Director’s Voice
by John Bảo I started my writing journey a few years ago as a screenwriter. But becoming represented and selling a script takes time and a lot of finished scripts. So, when the opportunity to direc…
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Kim Fahner @kimfahner.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Open to writers across Canada.
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Poets & Writers @pw.org · 15/05/2025
#ClipOfTheDay: “I wanted to write about a father and daughter in a building made of time.” Madeleine Thien talks about the genealogy of ideas and yearslong process of writing her novel The Book of Records (Norton) in this Toronto Public Library event with Elamin Abdelmahmoud. at.pw.org/Thien
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Writers In Trees @writersintrees.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
“What are you going to do with an English degree?” I took a deep breath, prepared to shrug off the familiar question with another, “I don’t know, I’ll see when I graduate.” But something in me resisted the dismissive answer. writersintrees.com/2025/05/14/t... #Reading #Writing #EmergingWriter #WIT
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The Power That Comes With Reading
by Gisele Tang “What are you going to do with an English degree?” I took a deep breath, prepared to shrug off the familiar question with another, “I don’t know, I’ll see when I graduate.” But somet…
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Another Story Bookshop @anotherstoryto.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Upcoming events at another story bookshop! In store and offsite. Full details at anotherstory.ca/events and anotherstorybookshop.eventbrite.ca
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Ann Y.K. Choi @annykchoi.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Great chatting with Edward Y.C. Lee (The Laundryman’s Boy) & Kath Jonathan (The Resistance Painter), & spotlighting historical fiction by CanLit authors. #gritLIT #HistoricalFiction #RecommendedBooks
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Writers In Trees @writersintrees.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
"I think most writers (and most people) dream about the ability to take a year away from their job or indulge their art without the pressure of financial obligations." writersintrees.com/2025/04/14/a...
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A Pulitzer Prize for Your Thoughts
By Chelsea Kowalski There’s a well-known story about the origins of To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee that is something of a writer’s fantasy. Lee was working customer service jobs in New Y…
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