Quill and Quire

by Q&Q Staff

Tie-ins

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• Lynne Stopkewich’s Kissed, the film adaptation of Barbara Gowdy’s story We So Seldom Look on Love (from the collection by the same name), opens across Canada Apr. 11. Screened at several Canadian film festivals, ... Read More »

November 5, 2003

No more writers’ garrets

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Poverty among Canadian writers is a serious and growing problem. A recent Statistics Canada survey found that writers earn an average of just $15,000 annually from their art. Many, of course, earn much less. Most ... Read More »

November 5, 2003

May they bloom

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In the wake of the World Trade Organization’s ruling against Canadian magazines, some might predict a gloomy future for that industry. But undaunted – like green shoots poking through slag heaps of melting snow – ... Read More »

November 5, 2003

Bringing it home

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While parents wrangle with school boards over curriculum, teaching methods, standards, and testing, a growing number of Canadians are taking matters into their own hands and pulling their children out of school – or declining ... Read More »

November 5, 2003

Tie-ins

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• Brad Pitt plays Austrian mountaineer Heinrich Harrer in Seven Years in Tibet, scheduled to open in October. General Publishing’s tie-in features the full screenplay and director Jean Jacques Annaud’s original photos of Tibet.• Sean ... Read More »

November 3, 2003

Fax

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Bonfire of Vanity• Plucky U.K. poet and Fax fixture Andrew Tait, whose daring antics to secure a publisher include threatening to jump off a bridge and attempting to starve himself to death, has finally thrown ... Read More »

November 3, 2003

Why they were banned

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Three books recently banned by the Surrey school board all have one thing in common: each uses matter-of-fact, positive imagery to counter negative stereotypes about families with same-sex parents. It is this quality, according to ... Read More »

November 3, 2003 | Filed under: Industry news

Hello to arms

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I have just completed a year as chair of The Writers’ Union of Canada, a year which – due entirely to the hard work of executive director Penny Dickens and her pleasant, industrious staff – ... Read More »

November 3, 2003

Mathematically incorrect?

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Schoolteachers may make good parents, but they’re often not the best teachers for their own offspring. As my two daughters frequently complain, Mom has her own ways of doing things that often don’t coincide with ... Read More »

November 3, 2003