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Podcast: What Happened Next: a podcast about newish books
Episode: Alicia Elliott
Description: My guest in this episode is Alicia Elliott. Alicia is a Mohawk writer living in Brantford, Ontario, whose essays have been nominated for multiple National Magazine Awards. She is also a recipient of the RBC Taylor Emerging Writer Award. Alicia’s first book, the essay collection A Mind Spread Out On The Ground, was a national bestseller, and was nominated for the Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction. It also won the Forest of Reading Evergreen Award. The New York Times Book Review called that collection “raw” and “unflinching”, the Globe and Mail called it “a tour de...