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- ↑ "Prizes announced on first day of National Poetry Month". Toronto Star , April 1, 2015.
- ↑ ReLit Awards announce 2015 "long shortlist". CBC Books, January 5, 2016.
- ↑ "East Coast Literary Awards celebrate authors". Atlantic Books Today, June 8, 2015.
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