by Attila Berki

Jessica Johns, Jennifer Bowering-Delisle among 2024 Alberta Literary Awards winners

The Writers’ Guild of Alberta handed out the 2024 Alberta Literary Awards on June 8. The ceremony was part of the annual WGA Conference in Edmonton. The winners, chosen from shortlists announced in April, are: ... Read More »

June 10, 2024

Alicia Elliott wins 2024 Amazon Canada First Novel Award

By Attila Berki

Alicia Elliott has been named the winner of the 2024 Amazon Canada First Novel Award for And Then She Fell. The $60,000 prize was announced at a live event in Toronto on June 6. The ... Read More »

June 7, 2024

Winners of the 2024 New Brunswick Book Awards announced

By Attila Berki

The ninth annual New Brunswick Book Awards were presented at a live event on June 1 in Moncton, New Brunswick. The awards are administered by the Writers’ Federation of New Brunswick (WFNB). Lisa Alward won ... Read More »

June 3, 2024

Patsy Aldana and Kate Edwards named Association of Canadian Publishers awards honorees

By Attila Berki

Patsy Aldana and Kate Edwards have been named the recipients of the Association of Canadian Publishers' annual awards. Aldana, who founded Groundwood Books in 1978, and is currently publisher of the Greystone Kids imprint Aldana ... Read More »

May 30, 2024

Agency changes: House of Anansi Press and Groundwood Books

By Attila Berki

As of May 1, 2024, House of Anansi Press and Groundwood Books are represented by Read + Co in British Columbia, Alberta, Yukon, Northwest Territories, and Nunavut, and by Rorie Bruce in Saskatchewan and Manitoba. ... Read More »

May 27, 2024

Fredericton’s Goose Lane Editions marks 70 years of publishing

By Attila Berki

Goose Lane Editions – the oldest independent press in Canada – celebrates its 70th birthday this year. The press, founded in 1954 by poet, critic, translator, and professor Fred Cogswell and his colleagues at the ... Read More »

May 22, 2024

Goose Lane Editions at 70: A visual timeline, 1954–2024

By Attila Berki

Fredericton’s Goose Lane Editions ... Read More »

May 22, 2024

Agency and distribution change: A24

By Attila Berki

Effective immediately, Hornblower Group is the Canadian sales representative for A24. The film and TV–driven books are now available to the trade via U.K publisher Mack, which the Hornblower Group already represents. A24 titles will ... Read More »

May 22, 2024

Alice Munro: Giant of the short story

By Attila Berki

The first lines in “Royal Beatings,” from Alice Munro’s 1978 collection Who Do You Think You Are?, read as follows: “Royal Beating. That was Flo’s promise. You are going to get one Royal Beating.” The ... Read More »

May 15, 2024

Excerpt from Crooked Teeth: A Queer Syrian Refugee Memoir

By Attila Berki

I am going to take a moment here to ask you: What do you expect me to write about my six weeks in a Syrian dungeon? What more can I offer that might make this ... Read More »

May 15, 2024

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