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- ↑ "Governor-General Literary Awards finalists unveiled". The Globe and Mail , October 7, 2014.
- ↑ "League of Canadian Poets announce finalists for three prizes". National Post , April 1, 2014.
- ↑ "Sadiqa de Meijer wins CBC poetry prize". Toronto Star , September 25, 2012.
- ↑ "Inuk author Norma Dunning wins $25K Governor General's fiction prize". Coast Reporter, November 17, 2021.
- ↑ "Poet Laureate | City of Kingston". web.archive.org. 2024-06-10. Retrieved 2024-06-10.
- 1 2 "Poets in Profile: Sadiqa de Meijer, Winner of the 2012 CBC Canada Writes Poetry Prize". Open Book Ontario, October 19, 2012.
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