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- ↑ "This 71-year-old writer's coming-of-age novel is a debut like no other". As It Happens , October 15, 2021.
- ↑ "Retired bricklayer among six debut novelists vying for $60,000 prize". The Globe and Mail , May 10, 2022.
- ↑ "The finalists for the 2022 Governor General's Literary Award for fiction". CBC Books, October 12, 2022.
- ↑ "14 Canadian authors longlisted for $100K Scotiabank Giller Prize". CBC Books, September 6, 2022.
- ↑ "Brian Thomas Isaac, Selina Boan and Aimée Craft among winners for 2022 Indigenous Voices Awards". CBC Books, June 22, 2022.
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