by Attila Berki

m. nourbeSe philip, Christina Sharpe, and Jen Hadfield win 2024 Windham-Campbell Prizes

Three of the eight winners of this year’s Windham-Campbell Prizes are Canadian writers: m. nourbeSe philip, Christina Sharpe, and Jen Hadfield. The annual Windham-Campbell Prizes, administered by Yale University’s Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, ... Read More »

April 3, 2024

Excerpt from Ascenti: Humans Opening to AI

By Attila Berki

AI and Literacy at the Tsuut’ina Nation I am DerRic Starlight and I am from the Tsuut’ina Nation. My mother is from the Blood Tribe, the Kainai Nation, so I am half Dene and half ... Read More »

March 27, 2024

Myrna Kostash wins 2024 Kobzar Book Award

By Attila Berki

The biennial Kobzar Book Award has been awarded to Ghosts in a Photograph: A Chronicle by Myrna Kostash. The $25,000 prize, sponsored by the Ukrainian Canadian Foundation of Taras Shevchenko, recognizes outstanding contributions to Canadian ... Read More »

March 26, 2024

2023–24 New Brunswick Book Awards shortlists announced

By Attila Berki

The titles shortlisted for the ninth annual New Brunswick Book Awards have been announced by the Writers' Federation of New Brunswick (WFNB). The finalists are: Mrs. Dunster’s Award for Fiction Valerie Sherrard, Standing on Neptune ... Read More »

March 20, 2024

New Al and Eurithe Purdy Poetry Prize to honour Canadian poets

By Attila Berki

Eurithe Purdy, Al Purdy's widow, has announced the creation of a major new Canadian literary prize to honour poets “who embody exceptional talent and a profound connection to the Canadian spirit, a spirit that Purdy ... Read More »

March 20, 2024

2024 Griffin Poetry Prize longlist announced

By Attila Berki

The Griffin Poetry Prize has announced a longlist of 10 titles for the 2024 prize. The two Canadians on the list are translators George McWhirter and Emilie Moorhouse. The longlisted titles are: A Crash Course ... Read More »

March 20, 2024

Neil Longley wins Axiom Business Book award

By Attila Berki

A Whole New Game: Economics, Politics and the Transformation of the Business of Hockey in Canada by Neil Longley (Douglas & McIntyre) has been announced as co-winner of the Axiom Book Award in the business ... Read More »

March 20, 2024

Rights deals: Susin Nielsen, Scott McIntyre + 7 more

By Attila Berki

HarperCollins Canada’s Jennifer Lambert has acquired Canada English rights to Susin Nielsen’s adult debut SNAP in a six-figure two book deal. The book is described as a laugh-out-loud novel about three unlikely people, a children’s author, ... Read More »

March 15, 2024

Wayne McCrory wins Basil Stuart-Stubbs Prize

By Attila Berki

The Basil Stuart-Stubbs Prize has announced Wayne McCrory’s The Wild Horses of the Chilcotin: Their History and Future (Harbour Publishing) as the winner of the 2024 award. The $3,500 prize, given by UBC Library and ... Read More »

March 13, 2024

Obituary: Reginald John (Rex) Williams

By Attila Berki

Reginald John (Rex) Williams died peacefully on Saturday, 17th February. He was in his 97th year. For the past few years, Rex resided at the Veterans Centre at Sunnybrook Hospital in Toronto, where he was ... Read More »

March 12, 2024

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m. nourbeSe philip, Christina Sharpe, and Jen Hadfield win 2024 Windham-Campbell Prizes

Excerpt from Ascenti: Humans Opening to AI

Myrna Kostash wins 2024 Kobzar Book Award

2023–24 New Brunswick Book Awards shortlists announced

New Al and Eurithe Purdy Poetry Prize to honour Canadian poets

2024 Griffin Poetry Prize longlist announced

Neil Longley wins Axiom Business Book award

Rights deals: Susin Nielsen, Scott McIntyre + 7 more

Wayne McCrory wins Basil Stuart-Stubbs Prize

Obituary: Reginald John (Rex) Williams

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