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Daniel Karasik is the grand prize winner of this year's CBC Canada Writes competition. His story "Mine", wowed the jury composed of Peter Behrens, Alison Pick and Michael Winter and captured the top spot.

Daniel, 25, is an actor, playwright, poet and fiction writer whose work has appeared on stage around the world and in Undercurrents: New Voices in Canadian Poetry (Cormorant Books) and 5 Hot Plays (Playwrights Canada Press). He is also the author of The Crossing Guard and In Full Light, a two play volume. Cormorant is set to publish Daniel's first poetry collection in 2013.

Daniel talks with Open Book about his winning story, how he juggles multiple genres and what's up next.