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The Union’s readings programs are an investment in present and future Canadian voices and their Canadian publishers.
HOW TWUC SUPPORTS OUR MEMBERS
- Powerful advocacy in support of writers’ rights
- Connection with a community of professional writers across the country
- Increased income opportunities through public and school readings programs
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- Be paid to mentor, or be mentored by, another writer through the Union's Mentorship Microgrants
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Lorne Shirinian
Two Armenians are murdered in the Don Valley near the Pottery Road Bridge sixty-three years apart. Crime writer, Noah Asher, sets out on a journey at the end of which he discovers government corruption over land deals near the Bayview Extension in Toronto. The first part of the story is seen…
