by Attila Berki

Writers’ Guild of Alberta announces finalists for the 2025 Alberta Literary Awards

The shortlists for the 2025 Alberta Literary Awards have been announced by the Writers’ Guild of Alberta. The awards celebrate literary excellence by Alberta authors. Teresa Wong, Amy Lin, and Julie Sedivy all received multiple ... Read More »

April 1, 2025

Distribution change: Breach Books

By Attila Berki

Breach Books, the publishing division of Breach Media (ISBN 97810693), will be distributed by LitDistCo in Canada ... Read More »

March 25, 2025

New Brunswick Book Awards shortlists announced

By Attila Berki

The Writers' Federation of New Brunswick (WFNB) has announced the shortlisted titles for the 2024-25 New Brunswick Book Awards. The awards are presented to books published in the 2024 calendar year in poetry, fiction, nonfiction ... Read More »

March 21, 2025

Excerpt from Dark Chapters: Reading the Still Lives of David Garneau

By Attila Berki

The Problem With Pleasure by Billy-Ray Belcourt Most days I’ve wanted to be my desires and not merely the unrelenting density from which they rush forth. The problem with pleasure is that two people can ... Read More »

March 19, 2025

Kingston WritersFest announces successful fundraising campaign and steps to resurrect festival

By Attila Berki

Kingston WritersFest announced on March 10 that a fundraising Angel Campaign has raised enough funds to address the financial obligations of the 2024 festival and thanked the “Kingston community and book lovers across Canada” for ... Read More »

March 11, 2025

Address change: Kingston WritersFest

By Attila Berki

Kingston WritersFest has a new mailing address: 221 Queen ... Read More »

March 11, 2025

Al & Eurithe Purdy Poetry Prize longlist for 2025 announced

By Attila Berki

The Al Purdy A-Frame Association (APAFA) has announced a longlist of ten titles for the second annual Al & Eurithe Purdy Poetry Prize. The $10,000 prize honours the most outstanding new poetry book published in ... Read More »

March 11, 2025

Stanley Munn and Patricia Cucman win the 2025 Basil Stuart-Stubbs Prize

By Attila Berki

Stanley Munn and Patricia Cucman have been named the winners of the 2025 Basil Stuart-Stubbs Prize for To See What He Saw: J.E.H. Macdonald and the O’Hara Years, 1924–1932, published by Figure 1 Publishing. The ... Read More »

March 10, 2025

Agency and distribution change: Sterling Publishing/Union Square & Co.

By Attila Berki

As of March 21, 2025, Hachette Book Group will become the vendor of record for all of Sterling Publishing/Union Square & Co. All sales, order processing, billing/collection, fulfillment and returns processing will be handled by ... Read More »

March 10, 2025

Sofia Ajram garners two nominations for Bram Stoker Awards

By Attila Berki

Montreal-based author Sofia Ajram has been nominated in two categories for the Horror Writers Association 2024 Bram Stoker Awards. Ajram is shortlisted for Coup de Grâce (Titan Books) in the long fiction category and as ... Read More »

February 28, 2025

Prev 21 222324 25....50 51 Next