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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John Passfield
I’m pleased to share the publication of my 35th novel, Chatterton: A Self of My Own.This work revisits the figure of Thomas Chatterton, imagining a seventeen-year-old who creates a second self—one that lives in another century and writes in an antique poetic voice. What begins as an act of private…
