4 authors with Canadian ties longlisted for $205K Carol Shields Prize for Fiction
The North American prize is the largest prize celebrating women and non-binary authors.
https://www.cbc.ca/books/carol-shields-prize-for-fiction-longlist-2026-9.7116356?cmp=rss
Books in the Woods Review #5: Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

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I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning to sail my ship.
—Louisa May Alcott

Wellllllllll, sorta? Keep trying is how I approach it!

🤩🤩🤩TOMORROW!🤩🤩🤩
Join us for this LIVE group author reading featuring #womenauthors and #nonbinaryauthors of #sciencefiction #fantasy and #horror via Zoom. There's still time to register! #SWSWQR

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Some families leave you money. Others leave you scars. Debby Show's Paper Roses is a haunting, brilliant exploration of generational trauma and the defiant choice to break cycles. Essential reading.
https://theurb.co/paper-roses

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Paper Roses by Debby Show review: an unforgettable multigenerational family saga inspired by true events - The Urban Herald

Discover Paper Roses by Debby Show, a gripping multigenerational family saga spanning WWII Morocco and contemporary California. Explore themes of resilience, inherited trauma, and healing in this deeply authentic, character-driven novel inspired by true events.

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“He was a bad painter and a vicious gossip, with a vocabulary composed almost entirely of obscenities, guttural verbs, and the word 'postmodernist'."

Donna Tartt, 1992

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Catherine Parr, sixth queen of Henry VIII, was named after Catherine of Aragon, his first queen...who was her godmother.

Catherine the Very Much Younger was also the first woman to have her work appear in print, in English, under her own name.
#history #CatherineParr #CatherineOfAragon #WomenAuthors

This author was blacklisted in Hollywood for 10 years as a suspected Communist. She had indeed been a "casual member" of the Party (in her possibly self-serving words) about a decade before she refused to answer questions from McCarthy's committee.

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That first sentence is a thing of beauty

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