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Winners of 2024 Creative Writing Awards Announced
Date & Time: 12:00 PM on Fri, 19 April
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Dr. Teresa Heffernan is hosting "Intelligence" in the Absence of Life one day workshop at UofT
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Submissions are now open for the 2024 Department of English Creative Writing Awards
Date & Time: 11:59 PM on Fri, 5 April
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The SMU Reading Series welcomes two poets for its last reading of the 2023/24 season
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Reading + Q&A with SMU's 2024 Writer in Residence Casey Plett
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Winners of 2023 Poetry and Fiction Prizes Announced
Date & Time: 12:00 PM on Wed, 17 May
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Graduate Farewell
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Nova Scotia launches new Atlantic Media Preservation Laboratory, Margaret Perry exhibit
Date & Time: 9:00 AM on Tue, 27 September
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Researcher sparks new conversations about machine learning and robotics
Date & Time: 10:05 AM on Thu, 16 June
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‘Lagomorph’ story by Dr. Alexander MacLeod wins Nova Scotia’s top arts prize
Date & Time: 11:52 AM on Fri, 10 December
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New Book Examines British Political Turbulence Through Novels of the 1970s
Date & Time: 9:00 AM on Fri, 16 July
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Award-winning local authors at Saint Mary’s Reading Series
Date & Time: 10:13 AM on Fri, 20 December
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