Trust the Bluer Skies
A book of creative non-fiction
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Short-listed for the 2024 WGA James H. Gray Award
Congratulations to the finalists and to everyone who had works submitted to the 2024 Alberta Literary Awards. My essay, The Stones that Anchor Us, and published in 2023 by Queen’s Quarterly has been short-listed for: James H. Gray Awards for Short Nonfiction paulo da costa – The Stones that Anchor Us (Queens Quarterly) Patti Edgar – Ascending in a Hotel Conference Room (The Dalhousie Review) Thomas Wharton – Cat Fox Neutrino (Hazlitt) This essay is included in my new book, Trust the Bluer Skies. Thank you to the Writers’ Guild of Alberta for hosting these awards, than you to the many funders that ensure the continuity of these prizes. @writersguildab…
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Foreword Magazine Review
AUTOBIOGRAPHY & MEMOIR Trust the Bluer Skies : Meditations on Fatherhood paulo da costa, University of Regina Press Softcover $24.95 (256pp) 978-0-88977-995-2 paulo da costa’s heartbreaking memoir Trust the Bluer Skies is a bittersweet ode to memories of lost times and places. The book explores da costa’s relationship with his four-year-old son, Koah, during a months- long, pivotal trip from Canada to da costa’s birth- place in rural Portugal, undertaken in an effort to expose Koah to his heritage and extended family life. The book is intentional in considering how traditions are passed from one generation to another, as from a loving father to his son. In Portugal, da costa…
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Review of Bluer Skies by Lindsay Wincherauk
audio and written review – click to view
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New Creative Essay
Please check out my creative essay, The Stones That Anchor Us in this just-released issue of Queen’s Quarterly. This text explores the Xmas eve traditions in my family, and also broadly shared by many in this northern area of Portugal. Enjoy. https://www.queensu.ca/quarterly/stones-anchor-us
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Giving Away 20 copies of Trust the Bluer Skies
Goodreads Book Giveaway Trust the Bluer Skies by paulo da costa Giveaway ends March 03, 2024. See the giveaway details at Goodreads. Enter Giveaway