The Koffler Centre of the Arts has announced the finalists for the 2023 Vine Awards for Canadian Jewish Literature. The annual awards honour Canadian writers who are Jewish or who deal with Jewish subjects across four categories: fiction, history, nonfiction, and YA/children’s literature. This year, a Vine Award for poetry is also being awarded. The
On a recent road trip through Washington State, I was so happy to find bug splatter on the front bumper and windshield of the car: distinct fragments of striped bee, tiny red fly splotches, and the torn wings of a pale green and ivory moth, still fluttering in the wind.…