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The Union is pleased to announce the winners of the 2025 Danuta Gleed Literary Award and the 2026 Short Prose Competition for Emerging Writers.
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Brenda Gunn
I am over the moon that my 2024 poetry collection, Florilegia, is on the short list for the Whistler Independent book award for poetry!
