“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

Casey Plett is the author of A Dream of a Woman, Little Fish, and A Safe Girl to Love, and the co-editor of Meanwhile, Elsewhere: Science Fiction and Fantasy from Transgender Writers. She is also the publisher at LittlePuss Press. Her most recent book is On Community, published in 2023 by Biblioasis. In this episode, Casey and Nathan talk about her terrible author signature, surviving the first days of the new Trump regime, and the shift in approach she is taking with her novel in progress.


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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