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    Aug 21
    We need to know 👀 Our ongoing #WT50 author series ‘From writers, to readers 🍁’ features notable Canadian writers sharing their must-reads. Now we want to hear from the readers, we want to hear from you! What Canadian book is your must-read right now? #CanadianReader
    What Canadian book is your must-read right now? WT50
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    Aug 12
    An immense thank you to the 2026 Berton House Writers’ Residency jury, local author Louise Dumayne and past writers-in-residence Gord Grisenthwaite, and Manjushree Thapa, for their time and dedication in selecting our 2026 writers-in-residence. writerstrust.com/BertonHouse #WT50
    Berton Hour Writers' Residency, 2026 Jury: Louise Dumayne, Gord Grisenthwaite, Manjushree Thapa.
    Berton Hour Writers' Residency, 2026 Jury: Louise Dumayne is a fiction writer based in the Yukon wilderness. She has finished a thriller manuscript and is working on a second with a supernatural element. She was an actor in London for over fifteen years before moving to Alaska to work with sled dogs. Her work draws on her granular knowledge of a unique bush lifestyle, the caring but claustrophobic culture of remote communities, and the eccentric characters drawn to the far north. She won the Lush Triumphant Short Fiction Award in 2021. Dumayne lives off road, off grid in a cabin in the woods with her husband and a retired sled dog.
    Berton Hour Writers' Residency, 2026 Jury: Gord Grisenthwaite worked as a graphic designer before completing his MA in English literature and creative writing from the University of Windsor. His short fiction and poetry have appeared in publications like The Antigonish Review and PRISM international. His short story, “The Fine Art of Frying Eggs,” won the John Kenneth Galbraith Literary Award in 2013. In 2021, Grisenthwaite’s “Splatter Patterns” was shortlisted for the CBC Short Story Prize and his debut novel, Home Waltz, was shortlisted for a Governor General’s Literary Award. Grisenthwaite is from Lytton First Nation and lives in Kingsville, Ontario.
    Berton Hour Writers' Residency, 2026 Jury: Manjushree Thapa is the author of eight books of literary fiction and nonfiction. She has also translated Nepali literature into English. Her nonfiction book Forget Kathmandu was a finalist in the Lettre Ulysses Award. She has won the Canada Council for the Arts’ Joseph S Stauffer Prize in Literature and the Pen/HEIM Translation Fund, and numerous grants and writing residencies worldwide. Her essays have appeared in Granta, Globe and Mail, New York Times, Newsweek, and London Review of Books. 
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    Aug 12
    Announcing the Berton House Writers’ Residency program 2026 writers-in-residence! These four Canadian writers will travel to Dawson City, Yukon, to live and work for two months in the childhood home of legendary Canadian author, and Writers’ Trust co-founder, #PierreBerton.
    Berton House Writers' Residency, 2026 Resident: Eva Crocker’s All I Ask won the 2020 BMO Winterset Award. Her short story collection Barreling Forward was a National Post Best Book, shortlisted for the NLCU Fresh Fish Award for Emerging Writers, and won the Alistair MacLeod Award for Short Fiction and the CAA Emerging Author’s Award. Her novel Back in the Land of the Living was published by House of Anansi Press in August 2023. Crocker was a finalist for the Writers’ Trust Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBTQS2+ Emerging Writers in 2017. She holds a PhD in Interdisciplinary Humanities from Concordia University.
    Berton House Writers' Residency, 2026 Resident: Christine Estima has written for The New York Times, New York Daily News, The Observer, The Globe and Mail, Toronto Star, The Walrus, VICE, Chatelaine, Maisonneuve Magazine, and many more. Her debut collection The Syrian Ladies Benevolent Society was a CBC Best Book of 2023. Her debut novel Letter to Kafka was on the 2025 most anticipated lists of the CBC, Indigo, Book Riot, The Globe and Mail, and Toronto Star. It’s a Heather’s Pick at Indigo and named one of the Best Books of 2025 by the CBC. Estima lives in Toronto.
    Berton House Writers' Residency, 2026 Resident: Katie Munnik is a Canadian writer and poet living in Cardiff, UK. Her debut novel The Heart Beats in Secret was a USA Today Bestseller. Her second novel The Aerialists was Waterstones Welsh Book of the Month. A selected writer for the Hay Festival Writers at Work Program 2024, she is a graduate of Queen’s University, the University of St Andrews, and the Humber School for Writers. Munnick teaches writing at Cardiff University.
    Berton House Writers' Residency, 2026 Resident: Maria Reva writes fiction and is an opera librettist. She is the author of Good Citizens Need Not Fear, which was nominated for the Atwood Gibson Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize in 2020. Reva’s writing has appeared in The Atlantic, McSweeney’s, The Wall Street Journal, and The Best American Short Stories. She won the RBC Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers in 2018, a National Magazine Award in 2019, and the Shevchenko Foundation’s Kobzar Book Award in 2022. In 2025, she won the Atwood Gibson Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize for her book, Endling. Reva was born in Ukraine and grew up in New Westminster, British Columbia, where she currently lives.
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    Aug 10
    "They invite you into their global village, a microcosm of Canada, to sit at the Pit. They incite you into the wilds, into the mountains to pick cranberries, and onto the tundra to listen to silence.” – Angela Long, Writer to Writer: long legacy of the letters at Berton House.
    A manuscript sits on a desk in front of a typewriter.
    Someone walks down a nature trail, hands in their pockets.
    Sprawling landscape of rolling hills and a large river.
    Old fashioned shops lining a street.
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    Aug 5
    Join @AnotherStoryTO and @randomhouseca for the Toronto launch of ‘Eliza Sunshine’ by Michelle Good (Five Little Indians, Truth Telling). Featuring a reading and conversation with award-winning journalist, author and filmmaker @TanyaTalaga. Tickets: elizasunshine.eventbrite.ca
    Michelle Good, in conversation with Tanya Talaga. Paradise Theatre, 1006 Bloor St W, Toronto, On. Wednesday August 19, Doors open 6:30 PM, Event 7:00 PM. Another Story Bookshop, Random House of Canada.
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