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- 1 2 "Kerry Lee Powell, Michael Helm among Writers' Trust Fiction Prize finalists". Winnipeg Free Press , September 21, 2016.
- ↑ "Two debut novelists among this year's Writers' Trust nominees". The Globe and Mail , September 21, 2016.
- ↑ "Governor-General's Literary Award short list a serious case of déjà vu". The Globe and Mail , October 4, 2016.
- ↑ "Review: Kerry Lee Powell's Willem de Kooning's Paintbrush and Laura Trunkey's Double Dutch deliver the unexpected". The Globe and Mail , April 22, 2016.
