“AFNA”“AFNA” 2025”

Do you know a teen who dreams of being a writer?

The 2025 Amazon Canada First Novel Award is now accepting submissions for the Youth Short Story category. The winning story will receive $5,000. The deadline to submit is February 9, 2025.


Events

Podcasts

Josh O’Kane is an author and a reporter at the Globe and Mail. His most recent book is Sideways: The City Google Couldn’t Buy, published in 2022 by Penguin Random House Canada. In this episode, Josh and Nathan talk about the extremely unequal distribution of wealth in arts and culture (one of his main beats as a reporter), the strangeness of seeing your deeply reported journalistic work become a hit play that features a talking tree, and the wait for the next big book-worthy idea.


In 1949, Newfoundland and Labrador joined Canada after two heated referendums and intense debate. This episode explores the province’s journey to Confederation, with Mark Manning of Rum Ragged reflecting on its cultural legacy and Dr. Jeff Webb examining the political and economic controversies that still resonate today.

Navigating the health care system after a perimenopause diagnosis can be uniquely difficult, especially without a clear script for what questions to ask. Dr. Sheila Wijayasinghe is the Medical Director of Primary Care Outreach at Women’s College Hospital; she is the Health Expert for CTV’s The Social; and she is an advocate and author. This special episode of The Conversation Piece features content from her presentation at The Walrus Talks Menopause, supported by Shoppers Foundation for Women’s Health.




Poetry
  • Black and white photo of Ricardo Sternberg on an orange background. Rivers - He wanted throats constricted, / speech impeded, eyes rimmed red, / the room brimming with tears by Ricardo Sternberg
Fiction

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