About the Author
Leanne Dunic
Leanne Dunic transgresses genres and form to produce projects such as To Love the Coming End (Book*hug / Chin Music Press 2017) and The Gift (Book*hug 2019). She is the leader of The Deep Cove and lives on the unceded and occupied Traditional Territories of the x?m??k??y??m, S?wx_wú7mesh, and s?l?ilw?ta?? peoples.
Throughout 2020, All Lit Up-er Tan Light is participating in BookRiot's Read Harder Challenge—a reading task designed to expand readerly boundaries—and doing so with an indie twist. Each entry in this series will highlight one or two completed challenges along with ... Read more
Happy Thanksgiving! We're thankful for a spate of literary events and festivals (five!) to go to this week.
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If you thought last week had all the festivals, think again; this week has Thin Air in Winnipeg, Fog Lit in Saint John, Victoria's Festival of Authors, Poetry Weekend at the University of New Brunswick, Kingston Writers' Fest, and a bevy of readings and book launches.
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This week, books and magazines hang out at both the Taddle Creek Summer issue launch (Toronto) and the Room Magazine readings (Vancouver). Plus, a lot more (in a lot more places)
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We've got coast-to-coast events this week from Saint John, NB to Vancouver, BC. Catch what's going on in your area with our listings below.
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We’re heading into our last week of our National Poetry Month interview series, Poets Resist, where we have words with the @#$% patriarchy with five mighty poetry collections. Until then, we'll leave you with some bookish news around the web.
Leanne Dunic's collection To Love the Coming End (BookThug) is environmentally-conscious, in an entropic sort of way: "Everything will end," she says in our interview. "Such is the nature of life." All the same, Leanne discusses improving our environment to give us the ... Read more
Fists up for National Poetry Month! And we mean that in the best way possible. This year, we feel everyone could see a little more solidarity and community, so we're getting poetically political with Poets Resist, a series dedicated to poetry as a form of resistance. Every day ... Read more
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