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- ↑ "Nova Scotia poet among Governor General's Literary Award finalists". Halifax Chronicle-Herald , October 4, 2017.
- ↑ "Finalists named for 2017 Governor General's Literary Awards". Montreal Gazette , October 4, 2017.
- ↑ Tara Thorne, "Your 2018 Atlantic Book Award winners". The Coast , May 11, 2018.
- ↑ "Julia McCarthy on Duality, Elegy, and Overlap in Her Third Poetry Collection". Open Book, July 18, 2017.
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