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It promotes intellectual freedom for authors through campaigns, press releases and its annual Freedom to Read Week. It organizes the Writers-in-the-Schools Program under which authors visit schools and give readings there. TWUC has information available to writers about the business of publishing as it relates to writers. It also offers a Manuscript Evaluation Service through which critiques of a manuscript are provided. Contests from TWUC include the Writing for Children Competition, the Danuta Gleed Literary Award , the Postcard Story Competition and the Freedom to Read Award. Ron Brownhttp://www.writersunion.ca/b/brown.htm is the chair of TWUC. Deborah Windsor is its executive director. Past chairs have included noted authors Margaret Atwood , Pierre Berton , June Callwood , Timothy Findley , Graeme Gibson , Susan Musgrave , Paul Quarrington , David Lewis Stein and Eugene Benson . TWUC is based in Toronto . REFERENCES
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