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• Rheta Grimsley Johnson’s Hank Hung the Moon is Great Reading

  
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  Rheta Grimsley Johnson Clarksville, TN – If you haven’t read Rheta Grimsley Johnson’s books, you’re missing several great reads. Her latest, Hank Hung the Moon ( NewSouth Books, Montgomery, Alabama: 2012) , is a description of the influence of Hank Williams on Southern life and Southerners in particular ...
  18 hours ago

• On not winning literary prizes

  
  Wamathai — Authority: 110
  The Commonwealth Short Story Prize short-list has been announced.1 I had a particular interest in the announcement of this short-list because I submitted a story to competition.2 My name was not on it but the winner for the Kenya region is a friend, and his story – a gritty tale about a woman retaining, ...
  19 hours ago

• Review: Eunoia by Christian Bök

  
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  Madcap poetry collection Eunoia by Christian Bök, a Canadian experimental poet, is a major linguistic achievement. Published in 2001, it took him seven years to write and was (eventually) a bestseller in both Canada (where it won the 2002 Griffin Poetry Prize) and the UK, where it made it onto the list of The ...
  22 hours ago

• “How Was Your Weekend,” by Kim Dower

  
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  Download audio file (DowerWeekend.mp3) Kim Dower “HOW WAS YOUR WEEKEND,” the lab technician asks me as she sticks the needle in my vein, routine physical, blood rushing up the tube as if being chased out of my body. Fine , I tell her all good, really good, did some things, saw some people, ate out, ...
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• The Burgess Boys by Elizabeth Strout, review

  
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  Lucy Beresford admires a thoughtful take on hate crimes and personal responsibility.        
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• Tiree Music Festival supports Oban High School Costa Rica trip

  
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  [Updated below on tonights show - with photographs] The last 100 tickets for the Tiree Music Festival are on sale today – but tickets 101 and 102 are going to the Oban High School We Will Rock You concert for tonight’s final night raffle. Organisers approached the ForArgyll.com music editor, Campbell ...
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• FDL Book Salon Welcomes Bob Harris, The International Bank of Bob: Connecting Our Worlds One $25 Kiva Loan at a Time

  
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  Welcome Bob Harris ( BobHarris.com ) ( Kiva Lending Team ) ( Twitter ) and Host Holly Mosher (Director – Bonsai People ) ( Trailer ) The International Bank of Bob: Connecting Our Worlds One $25 Kiva Loan at a Time We all want to make the world a better place, right? But it’s too complicated, takes too ...
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• Denise Scott Brown denied the Pritzker.

  
  C-MONSTER.net — Authority: 107
  My story at ARCHITECT. Tweet
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• ArtPrize venue SiTE:LAB unveils ideas competition to revive old Grand Rapids museum building

  
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  $19,000 in prizes will be awarded in juried competition to re-imagine former Grand Rapids Public Museum building.
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• “My Only Friends” by Sarah Payne

  
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  If It Werent For Fido Essay Contest Grand Prize Winner Today, BestBullySticks is proud to share with you our Grand Prize winning "If It Werent For Fido" essay.  When we read Sarah Paynes story around our offices, we were all reminded of the ways dogs truly transform our lives. We know youll enjoy reading Sarahs ...
  3 days ago

• Justin Bieber Snubbed For Polaris Prize

  
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  On Thursday, a long list of Polaris Prize winners were announced and conveniently, Justin Bieber was omitted and snubbed by the Canadian awards committee.  Bieber has been complaining that people do not take him seriously as an artist, and clearly that’s true because he has yet to make it on the Polaris ...
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• Stellan Skarsgard And A Battered Kristofer Hivju Share A Laugh In First Shot From THE PRIZE IDIOT

  
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  Director Hans Petter Moland won a lot of fans around these parts with his 2010 effort A Somewhat Gentle Man. The Berlin selected comedy starred Stellan Skarsgard as a man freshly released from prison and trying to put his life back together and was laced with such a brilliantly understated and darkly absurd sense of ...
  3 days ago

• 2013 Polaris long list released, time to complain about it

  
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  Amid all of the other exciting things that happened yesterday, the fact that the Polaris Prize long list was announced was completely lost on me.  However, I am back down on planet Earth. Now let the bitching begin! Somehow the atrocious Tegan & Sara record made the list, as did the disappointing Metric ...
  3 days ago

• Nominations For The Future Awards Season 8 Close In 5 days

  
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  The Central Working Committee for The Future Awards, which is going Africa-wide this season, has announced that nominations for the 8th season comes to a close come Tuesday, June 18, 2013. “Nominations for The Future Awards Season 8 has been open for about a month and so far we have received thousands of entries ...
  3 days ago

• McFadden wins Griffin Poetry Prize

  
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  Canadian poet David McFadden briefly took to the stage at last night’s Griffin Poetry Prize gala to accept the $65,000 award – the richest in the world for a single book of poetry – for his latest collection,  What’s the Score? , published by Toronto’s Mansfield Press. “ It’s an unexpected ...
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• Superhero essay competition: tell us your favorite superpower

  
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  Sharpen your claws… er, pencils… It’s the summer of the superhero here at Oxford University Press. We’re publishing two essay collections on the real powers superheroes hold — on our imagination and our understanding of the world. Our Superheroes, Ourselves , edited by Robin S. Rosenberg, PhD, and What ...
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• FarmVille Social Sheep Feature

  
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  FarmVille and Zynga may soon introduce the Social Sheep  or  Prize Sheep feature in the game! This will be similar to the previously released Prize Pig feature and somewhat like the Dream Unicorn feature. Once again farmers will be able to work together with their neighbors to feed and grow special Prize Sheep ...
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• 2013 Polaris Music Prize Long List

  
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  The  Polaris Music Prize announced in Long List for 2013 yesterday, singling out 40 albums released in Canada this past year as standing heads and shoulders above the others.  It is an eclectic and diverse collection of nominees, more so than any other year I can think of.  From these 40, the jury will ...
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• City concert to enthrall symphony aficionados

  
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  (VOV) -The HCM City Ballet Symphony Orchestra and Opera (HBSO) will perform a concert on June 19 with a line-up comprising both Vietnamese stars and internationally renowned artists. HCM City Ballet presents Autumn Melody Concert Pianists Joo Eun Young and Ly Giai Hoa will join soprano Cho Hae Ryong, violinist ...
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• Polaris Music Prize unveils 2013 longlist

  
  Live4ever - The Brit Rock Daily — Authority: 435
  The longlist for this year’s Polaris Music Prize – the Canadian equivalent of the Mercury Music Prize – has been unveiled, with Mac DeMarco, Rhye and Majical Cloudz likely to be strong contenders for the award. “A lot of our jury expressed that this was the most difficult Polaris ballot they’ve ever ...
  3 days ago

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