Quill and Quire

by Q&Q Staff

Making where out of here

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Austin Clarke is the winner of the $15,000 W.O. Mitchell Literary Prize, awarded annually to a Canadian writer who has produced an outstanding body of work and has acted as a caring mentor for other ... Read More »

April 3, 2008

Love, valour, compassion

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How great is the distance between medicine and poetry? C.P. Snow, the English physicist and novelist, described his scientific and literary communities as two distinct cultures separated by what seemed an ocean. Both sets of ... Read More »

April 3, 2008 | Filed under: Book news

Invisible woman

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I’m black. I’m also female, fat, 40, wear my hair in blue dreadlocks, and have body piercings. I figure that makes me a member of at least six visible minorities. I’ve often heard new immigrants ... Read More »

April 3, 2008 | Filed under: Book news

In praise of older writers

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It isn’t enough for writers merely to be bursting with potential, they need a hook, some intriguing twist to their personal histories or early life that will catch the imagination of readers and the attention ... Read More »

April 3, 2008

Frankfurt on the cheap

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It was a trip born out of necessity. We had printed 3,000 copies of our literary magazine, and we owed the printer 13,000 euros. If we had any sort of proper organization, the idea of ... Read More »

April 3, 2008