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The Fountain of Youth

August 18, 2022August 19, 2022 - by Katie Underwood

If uninhibited creativity is a young person’s game, the nominees for this year’s Amazon Canada Youth Short Story category prize have more than a few nuggets of wisdom for their literary peers.

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Love and Grief

June 23, 2022June 28, 2022 - by Katie Underwood

Pik-Shuen Fung, winner of this year’s Amazon Canada First Novel Award, discusses the unbearable lightness of grief.

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Reality Bites

May 27, 2022 - by Katie Underwood

Nominees of this year’s Amazon Canada First Novel Award discuss the reality-illuminating—and reality-obscuring—properties of fiction

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Hooked-up Culture

March 10, 2022March 10, 2022 - by Katie Underwood

Edged out of the city by ever-inflating housing prices—and freed up by flexible working parameters, courtesy of COVID-19—Canadian millennials might finally have a shot at financial stability. If the Wi-Fi’s good, that is.

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Who Will Inherit the Earth?

November 30, 2021February 5, 2022 - by Katie Underwood

A lesser-discussed casualty of the climate crisis are children’s rights—particularly for those who are already marginalized.

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Game On

November 26, 2021February 25, 2022 - by Katie Underwood

How the Shaw Charity Classic became Canada’s community-fundraising platform to beat—and in well under a decade.

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The Internet Works—and It’s No Accident

September 21, 2021February 25, 2022 - by Katie Underwood

The pandemic has revealed the incredible value–and non-negotiable costs–of keeping Canadians connected. Both are expected to increase in the future.

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Utopia, or Something Like It

September 10, 2021 - by Katie Underwood

The six finalists of this year’s Amazon First Novel Award’s Youth Short Story category dream up their best possible futures, despite some very real fears

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‘We’re still here’

July 2, 2021June 22, 2021 - by Katie Underwood

Michelle Good’s devastating debut — which features interwoven testaments of the trauma incurred by residential school survivors — is the book Canada needs now

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A Sense of Place

May 25, 2021May 26, 2021 - by Katie Underwood

For the shortlisted nominees of this year’s Amazon Canada First Novel Award, writing fiction isn’t just a lifestyle—it’s a homecoming

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