Tag: Literature

Grad pens award-winning book

Andrew Westoll still dreams about the chimpanzees. In 2009, the Queen’s alumnus spent 10 weeks at Fauna Foundation, a chimpanzee sanctuary located just south of Montreal. His time with the apes inspired him to pen this year’s Charles Taylor Prizewinner, The Chimps of Fauna Sanctuary. Westoll has yet...

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Written with care

Over 90 per cent of proceeds from a new novel will go to benefit developments at Kingston General Hospital (KGH). Local writer, business-owner and actor Phillip Brown said he sees his novel Critical Care as a personal project, not one for financial gain. The money from his book, released in November,...

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Short and fast

Black bras and broken glass create the atmosphere for Amphetamine Heart. Liz Worth’s new poetry collection explores the urgency of paranoia and self-harm and is appropriately dedicated to her “old friend insomnia.” “[It’s] kind of peeking into someone’s journal or getting a sense of things they dreamed...

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War inside and out

It’s no surprise that Brian Howald’s book launch coincides with Remembrance Day — the local novelist and publisher is a war history buff. Inside Looking Out will be Howald’s fourth novel based on the Second World War. He’s also written about the American Civil War and has plans to release a novel...

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Autumn inauguration

A team of five Canadian authors will join forces in Kingston for a multi-book launch. Montreal publishing company Snare Books teamed up with the Toronto-based publishers Coach House Books for a five-piece book launch featuring collections from both houses at the Artel. The launch, dubbed Kingston...

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