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		<title>September Looms&#8230;..</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This last year has been an incredible, strange, busy, wonderful one for me&#8211;I took a permanent position as Creative Writing Professor at the University of the Fraser Valley last September, and three days later had a baby girl and went on a year-long maternity leave [thank you, UFV, for a wonderful maternity leave!].  Having a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.andreamacpherson.com/index.php/2010/08/25/september-looms/</link>
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		<title>More Funding Cuts to the Arts???</title>
		<description><![CDATA[  With all the new funding cuts to the arts, you might wonder what the arts will look like.  How better to express it than with something visual?  Thanks to artist Perry Haddock for forwarding this beautiful, if tragic, view of the arts.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.andreamacpherson.com/index.php/2009/09/08/more-funding-cuts-to-the-arts/</link>
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		<title>Contest Season</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My poem, directions for sleep, has been awarded first runner up in the Short Grain Literary Contest. Congratulations to all the winners! Read more about the contest, poems and magazine at Grain Magazine.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.andreamacpherson.com/index.php/2009/07/30/contest-season/</link>
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		<title>The Orange Prize</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From bookninja: Why the Orange Prize is important Robert McCrum writes on why the much-derided prize, accused of everything from discrimination to ghettoization, has accomplished its goal of bringing female writers to readers (read: women), and so much more. In 1996, I was not alone in wondering how long this quixotic attempt to redress the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.andreamacpherson.com/index.php/2009/05/04/the-orange-prize/</link>
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		<title>Away Has Gone to the UK</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A selection of my poems from Away appear in the new anthology, How the Light Gets In. &#8220;John Ennis, chair of the Centre for Newfoundland and Labrador Studies at the Waterford Institute of Technology in Ireland, will launch his newest anthology. How the Light Gets In, just published in Ireland, is a significant advancement of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.andreamacpherson.com/index.php/2009/04/22/away-has-gone-to-the-uk/</link>
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		<title>How to Inspire an Author?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been in the end-of-winter, grey days, too much rain blahs for the last few weeks&#8211;and not getting any writing done hasn&#8217;t helped. The winter term is wrapping up, so there are literally towers of journals, chapters, poetry packages and revisions stacked all over my office on campus, and my office at home. I am [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.andreamacpherson.com/index.php/2009/03/26/how-to-inspire-an-author/</link>
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		<title>Reading Break&#8230;Or Writing Break?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This week is reading break for most colleges and universities in BC. It&#8217;s also the first year UFV has had a whole week, instead of the typical two-day break, and I am very thankful for the change. I really enjoy teaching, seeing new work from students, talking about the process, offering advice on manuscripts. I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.andreamacpherson.com/index.php/2009/02/19/reading-breakor-writing-break/</link>
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		<title>The New Way I Write</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We got a kitten, Chloe or Smush, as she is sometimes affectionately known for obvious reasons, for Christmas. She&#8217;s very sweet, and likes to be around me when I am working from home. So&#8230;.. Need I say more?]]></description>
		<link>http://www.andreamacpherson.com/index.php/2009/01/17/the-new-way-i-write/</link>
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		<title>How To Depress a Canadian Author</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Calgary Herald announced one of the most depressing stats I&#8217;ve seen in a long time [even in this economic swirl of depression] &#8212; apparently, &#8217;50 per cent of Canadians surveyed do not know the name of any Canadian authors, and of those who do, only four were mentioned by more than four per cent [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.andreamacpherson.com/index.php/2009/01/11/how-to-depress-a-canadian-author/</link>
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		<title>Favourite Books of 2008</title>
		<description><![CDATA[These lists are everywhere &#8212; from Papercuts to Amazon to Quill &#038; Quire and The Atlantic &#8212; so it seemed only natural to throw my two cents in. After all, I read a lot. A lot. But then I started thinking about it, and I&#8217;ve mostly read my students&#8217; work for 2008, and it hardly [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.andreamacpherson.com/index.php/2008/12/16/favourite-books-of-2008/</link>
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