Our Spring 2024 issue of #WriteMagazine is now available online! Print copies of THE POETRY ISSUE will soon be arriving in the mail 🌼 Wondering what you might be missing if you're not a member? Get a sneak peek 🔗 ow.ly/vvbE50OmV2x ✨ Cover by Abby Nowakowski.

A tiny reminder note to TWUC members across the country: be sure to check your email inboxes for yesterday’s email from TWUC to register for tomorrow afternoon’s Town Hall meeting, as well as the AGM and post-AGM social next weekend. TWUC ✨🌿✨

The Writers’ Union of Canada is saddened by the passing of Alice Munro, author, bookseller, Canada’s only winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature (2013), and Life Member of TWUC. Munro is among the names typed into the roll at the very first Union AGM in Ottawa in 1973.

If you have a subscription to quillandquire … and you really should… read about Canada’s writers and publishers pressing Ottawa for workable regulations around the intersection of artificial intelligence and creative labour. TWUC

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This is great, John. Many thanks. Especially like: 'Canada is a global embarrassment. We’re so far back in the race to encourage a working cultural economy, we may be in violation of international treaties[...]'

TWUC's very own if you can’t find John Degen, look in the lake reviews Hugh Stephens's book, In Defence of Copyright: An essential guide to the history & importance of copyright. 'If you have anything to do with copyright law in Canada, you read Hugh Stephens… or you should.' Check it out➡️ thebcreview.ca/2024/05/06/216…

Check out if you can’t find John Degen, look in the lake's review of Hugh Stephens's 'In Defence of Copyright: An essential guide to the history and importance of copyright' - 'A welcome and necessary defence' thebcreview.ca/2024/05/06/216…

I'm pleased to have published in The British Columbia Review (formerly Ormsby) this appreciation of Hugh Stephens' excellent summary history of copyright law.

The story of Canada in the history of world © has quite a few embarrassing chapters. Stephens elucidates.
Hugh Stephens TWUC
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Thank you TWUC for entrusting me to be a part of the largest, most-prestigious writing organization in the country.
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I got a pin! Five years as a TWUC member.

Thank you to all of our colleagues from across the Canadian publishing and writing sectors for coming together for a reception on AI and copyright. ANEL Canadian Authors Canadian Publishers TWUC UNEQ Literary Press Group Access Copyright Copibec & REFC.

Getting from the beginning to the end. What makes a good story? Join last year’s #DGA Winner Kim Fu, previous Finalists Saeed Teebi سعيد الطيبي & Gillian Wigmore for a discussion about the construction of a short story arc. Hosted by Marina Endicott. Register NOW: bit.ly/3sJyhe5

📣 COMMUNIQUÉ | Le secteur du livre plaide pour réglementer l’intelligence artificielle à Ottawa
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Canada has the opportunity to create a regulatory system for AI that supports the value of human creation and sustains our vital cultural industries. Let's not miss our chance. #cdnpoli accesscopyright.ca/media/announce…

Ten writing & publishing organizations were in Ottawa this week to meet with government on the opportunities & challenges that generative AI poses for Canada’s book industry. We need AI regulations that value human creation & sustain our cultural sectors.
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It was a working weekend for me. But joyful work.

Thanks to Kim Fahner and Waubgeshig Rice for allowing me to record what will be the keynote for the TWUC AGM next month.

Kim’s dog, Seamus, makes several cameos.

Celebrate Canadian Independent Bookstore Day (CIBD) with your favourite local bookstore! This year, CIBD falls on Saturday April 27, let’s make it a special day!

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Congratulations to Rebecca Hirsch Garcia, whose story collection THE GIRL WHO CRIED DIAMONDS has been shortlisted for the TWUC 2024 Daunta Gleed Literary Award!