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- ↑ Linda Svendsen, Words We Call Home: Celebrating Creative Writing at UBC. UBC Press, 2011. ISBN 978-0774844697. p. 33.
- ↑ "Striking it rich in Canada's literary sweepstakes". The Globe and Mail , October 19, 1996.
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