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Family news: Shannon Cowan’s novel short-listed

Shannon Cowan’s Young Adult novel, Tin Angel (978-1-897073-68-1), has been Shortlisted for the Canadian Children’s Book Centre’s Geoffrey Bilson Award for Historical Fiction for Young People. This award, which was established in 1988 in memory of the respected historian and … Continue reading

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Deadline

blind locomotive dragging cars and passengers on rigid steel toward the insistent bridge words tumble in rows stacking broken pencils crushed against an anvil insistent time pushing all before it toward the vertical sky

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dozing

The agenda was ready three weeks in advance and the lecture was polished as well, and the writers had gathered to hear the bard speak but he dozed, so the plan went to hell. Imagine the tempers and blood pressure … Continue reading

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