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  • ABOUT
  • MEMBER DIRECTORY
  • GET PUBLISHED
    • Services Offered
      • Directory of Canadian Publishers & Writers' How-to Series
      • Manuscript Evaluation Service
      • Hiring a ghostwriter
      • Literary Agents
      • Directory of Resources
  • PROGRAMS
    • PUBLIC READINGS
      • National Public Readings Program
    • SCHOOL VISITS
      • Ontario Writers-in-the-Schools
      • Participating Authors
      • Writers-in-the-Schools Across Canada
    • TWUC AWARDS
      • Danuta Gleed Literary Award
      • Short Prose Competition for Emerging Writers
      • Freedom to Read Award
      • Graeme Gibson Award
    • WEBINARS
      • BIPOC WRITERS CONNECT
      • MENTORSHIP MICROGRANTS
  • ADVOCACY
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Reports

Read reports on issues impacting Canadian authors and find the Union's strategic plans.

Strategic Plans

  • Integrated 2020-2023 Strategic Plan, Digital Strategy and Digital Needs Assessment (TWUC, September 2020)
  • Writers Matter: 2015–18 Strategic Plan (TWUC, February 2015)

TWUC Reports

  • Writing the Other: Including Diverse Characters in Our Stories, prepared by Natasha Deen, Tonya Liburd, Peter Midgley, and Winnie Yeung (2022)
  • Addressing Anti-Black Racism in Canadian Writing & Publishing (2020)
  • Fourth Publishers' Report Card reporting writers' experiences with Canadian publishers (2018)
  • Diminishing Returns: Creative Culture at Risk Report on income survey of Canadian writers (October 2018)
  • The Remuneration of Canadian Writers for Literary Works: A Benchmarking Study prepared by Communications MDR (version française) (September 2017)
  • Devaluing Creators, Endangering Creativity: Report on income survey of Canadian writers (May 2015)
  • Survey of Canadian Authors on Educational Copying (May 2013)
  • Third Publishers Report Card reporting writers' experiences with Canadian publishers (2013)

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