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- ↑ "'Raw and Real and Blunt' Hannah Green on Getting Sober & Her Semi-Autobiographical Long Poem, Xanax Cowboy". Open Book, March 22, 2023.
- ↑ Ryan Porter, "Six finalists announced for Brownwen Wallace Awards for Emerging Writers". Quill & Quire , May 19, 2021.
- ↑ "Anuja Varghese wins Governor General's literary award for fiction". Toronto Star , November 8, 2023.
- ↑ "Hannah Green, Sandra Ridley and Bradley Peters win League of Canadian Poets prizes". CBC Books, May 1, 2024.
- ↑ Micheline Maylor (April 5, 2023). "Xanax Cowboy, Hannah Green". Quill and Quire . Retrieved November 8, 2023.
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