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Writers’ Trust announces 2017–18 Berton House residents

The Writers’ Trust of Canada announced the roster of authors taking up residency at the Berton House Writers’ Retreat for 2017–18:

  • Elizabeth Ruth, the Toronto-based author of Ten Good Seconds of Silence, a finalist for the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize;
  • Wendi Stewart, of Wolfville, Nova Scotia, and the author of the novel Meadowlark;
  • Lawrence Hill, author of 10 books, including the novels The Book of Negroes and The Illegal;
  • Sandy Pool, currently a visiting scholar at the University of Calgary and a past finalist for a Governor General’s Literary Award and a Trillium Book Award.

Authors chosen for the Berton residency travel to Dawson City, Yukon, to spend three months living and working in the childhood home of Canadian icon Pierre Berton.

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January 23rd, 2017

1:57 pm

Category: Authors

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