- Craig Clark
- 19 Feb 2020
Margaret Atwood will be appearing at Hamilton’s gritLIT Festival this year
One of Canada’s most celebrated authors, Margaret Atwood, will be coming to Hamilton as part of the line-up of authors speaking at gritLIT in April. Atwood will be part of the festival’s o...
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- Craig Clark
- 10 Feb 2020
Hamilton author releases book that challenges ableism in classic fairy tales
The First Unitarian Church is hosting a book launch this Wednesday for the release of Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability and Making Space by Hamilton-based author Amanda Leduc. Disfigured challe...
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- Craig Clark
- 10 Dec 2019
Book about Chedoke Creek wins big at this year’s Hamilton Literary Awards
A prescient book about Chedoke Creek, the location of #sewergate that has been making the new in a big way recently, won big at the annual Hamilton Literary Awards last night. Congratulations to Jo...
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- Craig Clark
- 03 Dec 2019
The Hamilton Literary Award winners will be announced next week
Celebrating 26 years of recognizing vivid, evocative, and exceptional Hamilton storytelling. The Hamilton Literary Awards return on Monday, December 9th at Theatre Aquarius to announce this year̵...
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- Craig Clark
- 08 Sep 2019
Margaret Atwood speaks about Handmaid sequel in Hamilton
Since Margaret Atwood’s 1985 novel The Handmaid’s Tale became an Emmy-award winning television show, the image of the handmaid’s red gown and white hat has become a symbol of women’s rights. N...
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- Robert Cekan
- 29 Mar 2018
Today is Bryan Prince Bookseller’s final day of operation
A staple in the Westdale community for nearly three decades, independent bookstore Bryan Prince Bookseller located in the Westdale village is shutting its doors for good today. Co-owner Kerry Cranston...
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- Mark Coakley
- 16 Jan 2017
Glasses
A coming of middle-aged story Childhood’s end is often marked by a ritual. The vision quests of Native America, the bar and bat mitzvahs of Judaism, “sweet sixteen” in the US, face s...
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- Laura Shirk
- 09 Dec 2016
Culture Trip
10 Cultural Gems in Burlington REFRESH & REMIND: BURLINGTON’S CULTURAL GEMS Deemed just another bedroom community by some, Burlington has more to offer than meets the eye of those passing throug...
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- John McCurdy
- 09 Sep 2016
The Printed Word
A New, New & Used Bookstore in Downtown Dundas Tell me about yourself and your store’s staff. My wife and I operate The Printed Word, though our youngest of four children is an infant, so I̵...
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