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Next Stop The Winner’s Circle For Three Historians? Will the trend continue? Over the years the Toronto Book Award Gods have looking kindly on Toronto Caribbean and Black authors when it comes to picking the best book of the year which includes Toronto content in its pages.  Firebrand BLM writer Desmond Cole, Poet Dionne Brand, Malvern’s David Chariandy, radio founder Denham Jolly, and novelist Rabindranath Maharaj all have won the annual top prize of $10,000. The city’s annual award has recently released the names of the five 2022 finalists, and one of them has an opportunity to win the Prize the second time around.  Three distinguished scholars of Black history tell that powerful story of the 40,000 slaves who escaped to Canada from the US. Hundreds and hundresd passed through Toronto, many of them stayed. The detailed social and political history is brought to life in dozens of remarkable profiles of the women, men and families who made that dangerous journey. ...

K.J Mullins interviews Toronto writer Camilla Gibb Camilla Gibb believes in keeping journals, in fact her students at June Callwood Professor in Social Justice are required to keep one during their studies using an actual pen for the art of writing. With five award winning books under her belt Gibb knows the importance of catching those moments that may be forgotten if not written down in the moment.  Camilla Gibb Camilla Gibb is the author of 'This Is Happy,' one of the five shortlisted books for this year's RBC Taylor Prize to be announced on March 7 in Toronto. Snow was falling outside as we sat in the lobby at Toronto's King Edward Hotel to discuss her book and how life has changed since it was written.  Gibb said that her book was documenting a moving target (the birth and first few years of her daughter's life) while looking back to her own upbringing. That moving target, life in motion, has grown in the two years since the book was written. ...