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A New Year’s commitment
Jan 3 • Carrie Lou Hamilton
Writers, abusers and whatever is the opposite of innocence
Does it matter that a man whose writing taught me something about how the world works was friends with someone whose name I wish I had never heard?
Nov 27, 2025 • Carrie Lou Hamilton
On Kneecap
And on Canada and genocide
Sep 23, 2025 • Carrie Lou Hamilton
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Why writers write so much about themselves
Dec 3, 2024 • Carrie Lou Hamilton
Performative Activism and its Uses
May 9, 2024 • Carrie Lou Hamilton
Translation as Politics
Dec 29, 2023 • Carrie Lou Hamilton
Writers and Boycotts
Mar 13, 2025 • Carrie Lou Hamilton
Americans Will Never Love Us Back
Oct 1, 2024 • Carrie Lou Hamilton
Is Writing Addictive?
Jan 7, 2025 • Carrie Lou Hamilton
On Festivals
And on housing
Aug 30, 2025 • Carrie Lou Hamilton
Summer Reading and Writing
Links, recommendations and what's to come
Aug 1, 2025 • Carrie Lou Hamilton
Activist writing in and out of Spanish
3 anti-imperialist books for International Spanish Language Day
Apr 23, 2025 • Carrie Lou Hamilton
Writers and Boycotts
Last July, Andrea Skinner, the youngest daughter of the late short-story writer Alice Munro, published an account in a major Canadian newspaper of…
Mar 13, 2025 • Carrie Lou Hamilton
Writing by Numbers
Metrics, money and…. making ends meet?
Feb 4, 2025 • Carrie Lou Hamilton
Is Writing Addictive?
Or can it save your life?
Jan 7, 2025 • Carrie Lou Hamilton
Why writers write so much about themselves
And why that’s not such a good thing
Dec 3, 2024 • Carrie Lou Hamilton
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