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Pandemic forces change, opens doors for writers festival Talking Fresh

"We've all been challenged to reimagine how we live these days."
Author of the article: Lynn Giesbrecht
Publishing date: Feb 28, 2021 • February 28, 2021 • 3 minute read •
Yolanda Hansen, program manager for the Saskatchewan Writers' Guild, poses in the group's library. The guild will launch Talking Fresh, a six-day online event featuring numerous Canadian writers, from March 2 to 7. (Michael Bell / Regina Leader-Post) Photo by Michael Bell /Regina Leader-Post
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After spending seven years writing a novel about a coronavirus pandemic, living through a real pandemic has felt like a strange blend of fact and fiction for Saleema Nawaz.
From 2013 to 2019 — long before the first case of COVID-19 was detected — Nawaz pieced together her novel Songs for the End of the World, which follows a number of characters as they respond to a pandemic eerily similar to the current one.

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