While the talent and tenacity of our winningest authors cannot be overstated, they would agree that success in writing (as well as in love, river-rafting and cat ownership) involves a healthy dollop of luck. Four beloved writers share how fortune – and misfortune – has shaped their lives.
While the talent and tenacity of our winningest authors cannot be overstated, they would agree that success in writing (as well as in love, river-rafting and cat ownership) involves a healthy dollop of luck. Four beloved writers share how fortune – and misfortune – has shaped their lives.
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A GG-award nominated playwright and the 2020/21 Canadian Writer-in-Residence in the Calgary Distinguished Writer’s Program at UCalgary, Meg Braem once shared a serendipitous moment of intimate commiseration with a stranded bison; nothing has been the same since.
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Luck comes in many shapes: for poet and GG-finalist Benjamin Hertwig, it has arrived in the form of a returned wallet; a speeding car; a weighty baby; and a carrot cake (for who can summon anger when holding a carrot cake in a bakery line-up while facing one’s ex-wife’s weary lover?).
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The luck of meeting (and marrying) a man who instantly makes you want to slide your hand between the snaps of his cowboy shirt — fortune rarely smiles so widely. The formidable, lovable Lorna Crozier recently had devastatingly bad luck, too; her new memoir is a stunning tribute to her life with P...
Not only has Don Gillmor won countless literary prizes including last year’s GG win for non-fiction, but he can lay claim to an epic personal phone message from John Malkovich. Certainly an unstoppable literary force no matter what, a long-ago encounter with “a tall elegant woman” on Parliament H...
