These 8 short story collections are extremely readable, cover a variety of genres and authors and may give you a newfound ...

Aspiring writers across Ontario are invited to submit their best work for a chance to win $5,000 and see their story ...

If you dream of becoming a published author, now might be your chance. The Toronto Star Short Story Contest is one of the largest and longest-running short story contests in North America and the call ...

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The writer spent his life cultivating beauty—on the page and in the mirror—only to end it with a samurai-style suicide. Both ...

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Last July, the Toronto Star published Andrea Robin Skinner’s account of her sexual abuse, as a child, by Alice Munro’s ...

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On MT Vasudevan Nair’s unwritten ‘national autobiography’, which can be read through his body of work as a whole as well as ...