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- 1 2 Sue Carter, "Emily Urquhart has proof that people stay creative as they get older: her artist father Tony Urquhart, still working at 86". Toronto Star , September 7, 2020.
- ↑ Brad Wheeler, "Shortlist for $75,000 Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction includes past winner John Vaillant, scholar Christina Sharpe". The Globe and Mail , September 20, 2023.
- 1 2 3 Sue Carter, "Family inheritance: Emily Urquhart’s search for a cultural understanding of genetics". Quill & Quire , March 2015.
- ↑ "Short list announced for B.C. National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction". Vancouver Sun , December 9, 2015.
- ↑ Megan Cole, "Megan Cole Reviews Emily Urquhart’s The Age of Creativity: Art, Memory, My Father and Me". Hamilton Review of Books, November 16, 2020.
- ↑ Robert J. Wiersema, "Fairy Tales aren’t just for kids: Emily Urquhart on the stories we tell ourselves". Toronto Star , November 24, 2022.
- ↑ Isabel Buckmaster, "Kitchener author's new book finds wonder in the ordinary". CityNews Kitchener, December 1, 2022.