Short List Announced
The Union is please to announce the short list of nominees for the 29th annual Danuta Gleed Literary Award.
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Ian Williams
Poet and Fiction Writer (Photo: Justin Morris)
More than ever, as isolation threatens to become the norm, I appreciate how the Writers' Union preserves a community of writers.
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K.V. Johansen
The book launch for K. V. Johansen's sword and sorcery novel Breath and Bone (published by Candlemark and Gleam) will take place as at TriCon (the Trident Conference for Speculative Fiction) in Halifax. A long-retired swordswoman, saviour of godlings and killer of emperors, takes to the road again…
