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- ↑ "Tess Liem, Stevie Howell win 2019 Book Awards for poetry". Quill & Quire , June 10, 2019.
- ↑ "League of Canadian Poets Announces 2014 Prize Shortlists & Spoken Word Winner!". Open Book Toronto, April 1, 2014.
- ↑ "Introducing: Writing in English from a Multilingual Perspective". The Town Crier, October 3, 2016.
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