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3 unusual facts about Hugh Hood


Hugh Hood

In the early 1970s he and fellow authors Clark Blaise, Raymond Fraser, John Metcalf and Ray Smith formed the well-known Montreal Story Tellers Fiction Performance Group, which popularized the public reading of fiction in Canada.

Intercourse magazine

Among the contributors were such Canadian literary figures as Irving Layton, Al Purdy, Elizabeth Brewster, Leonard Cohen, Hugh Hood, Marty Gervais, John Glassco, Patrick Lane, Robert Hawkes, Silver Donald Cameron, Fred Cogswell, George Bowering and Seymour Mayne.

Tamarack Review

Notable writers whose early work was published in Tamarack include Timothy Findley, Hugh Hood, Alice Munro, Jay MacPherson and Mordecai Richler.


Clark Blaise

While living in Montreal in the early 1970s he joined with authors Raymond Fraser, Hugh Hood, John Metcalf and Ray Smith to form the celebrated Montreal Story Tellers Fiction Performance Group.


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