by Attila Berki

Agency and distribution change: Hopkins Press

University of Toronto Press will now represent Hopkins Press course materials, including textbooks, digital content, and other resources for university- and college-level teaching and learning, in both Canada and the U.S. This partnership is an expansion ... Read More »

December 4, 2024

Excerpt from Story Is a State of Mind: Writing and the Art of Creative Curiosity

By Attila Berki

As a writer, your mental focus—your capacity for attention—is one of your greatest resources. The human capacity for attention is limited. On any given day, there are more demands on your attention than you can ... Read More »

December 4, 2024

Kate Beaton wins Jan Michalski Prize for Literature

By Attila Berki

Kate Beaton's bestselling Canada Reads–winning 2022 graphic memoir Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands continues to rack up awards and international acclaim: the book was announced as the winner of the 2024 Jan ... Read More »

November 27, 2024

Excerpt from Question Authority: A Polemic About Trust in Five Meditations

By Attila Berki

Third Meditation: No, They Don’t Know Either The political theorist Jonathan Haidt, for example, well known for his criticism of elite education’s biases toward a hyperintelligent foolishness, has argued that the past decade of American ... Read More »

November 27, 2024

Personnel changes: Dundurn Press

By Attila Berki

Mylène Bouilly has joined Dundurn Press as rights and sales coordinator. Previously managing editor at Invisible Publishing, Bouilly will spearhead the rights strategy for the press in collaboration with publisher Meghan Macdonald, including international rights, ... Read More »

November 20, 2024

Excerpt from Bait & Switch: Essays, Reviews, Conversations, and Views on Canadian Poetry

By Attila Berki

I rarely admit to writing poetry when talking to people I’ve just met. Asked what I do for a living during a night out with my wife, I sometimes default to ‘freelance writer,’ or more ... Read More »

November 13, 2024

Winners of the 2024 Quebec Writers’ Federation Literary Awards announced

By Attila Berki

The Quebec Writers’ Federation Literary Awards, which honour the best of English-language literature in Quebec, were announced at a live event on Nov. 12 Along with the winners in eight categories, for which shortlists were ... Read More »

November 13, 2024

Brett Popplewell wins 2024 Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction

By Attila Berki

Brett Popplewell has won the 2024 Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction for his book Outsider: An Old Man, a Mountain, and the Search for a Hidden Past (Collins/HarperCollins). Popplewell was named the winner of ... Read More »

November 6, 2024

Christopher DiRaddo wins 2024 QWF Judy Mappin Community Award

By Attila Berki

The Quebec Writers’ Federation (QWF) has announced Christopher DiRaddo as the winner of the 2024 Judy Mappin Community Award. The Judy Mappin Community Award is presented annually to a member of the literary community for ... Read More »

October 30, 2024

Henry Tsang wins City of Vancouver Book Award, Elee Kraljii Gardiner named Vancouver’s poet laureate

By Attila Berki

Mutidisciplinary artist Henry Tsang was named the winner of the 2024 City of Vancouver Book Award for his first book, White Riot: The 1907 Anti-Asian Riots in Vancouver (Arsenal Pulp Press) at the Vancouver Writers ... Read More »

October 30, 2024

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