Quill and Quire

by Q&Q Staff

Winnipeg authors hit Harbourfront

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In late July, Toronto's Harbourfront Centre held a festival dubbed "From the Peg," which included a literary roundtable with four Winnipeg authors discussing writing in and about the city. (Photos by Evelyn Siu.) Novelist Margaret ... Read More »

August 9, 2006 | Filed under: Events

A death foretold

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Penguin Canada senior editor Nicole Winstanley has acquired Canadian rights to a new novel by Joanne Proulx. American Music is about a 17-year-old named Luke whose life gets complicated after he predicts, with freakish accuracy, ... Read More »

August 9, 2006

Double happiness

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Agent John Pearce of Westwood Creative Artists has just sold two new books by Globe and Mail columnist Jan Wong to two separate publishers. The first, Beijing Confidential: From Comrades to Cosmopolitans, will be Wong’s ... Read More »

August 9, 2006

Life redeemed

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Author Mary Sheppard (Seven for a Secret) has just sold Canadian rights to her latest novel to Penguin Canada senior editor Barbara Berson. Set in Corner Brook, Newfoundland, One for Sorrow is about a 15-year-old ... Read More »

August 9, 2006