Iconic Canadian writer Alice Munro has died. Munro, who died on May 13 in Port Hope, Ontario, was 92. She was hailed as a master of the contemporary short story and was one of Canada's ... Read More »
May 14, 2024
The winners of the 20th annual Doug Wright Awards were announced in Toronto on Saturday, May 11, in conjunction with the Toronto Comic Arts Festival. The annual awards for Canadian cartooning honour excellence in comics ... Read More »
May 13, 2024
Jennifer Bonnell has won the 2024 Lieutenant-Governor’s Medal for Historical Writing for Stewards of Splendour: A History of Wildlife and People in British Columbia published by the Royal British Columbia Museum. The prize, administered by ... Read More »
May 8, 2024
Two Canadian authors have been named to the fiction shortlist for the William Saroyan International Prize for Writing. Brandon Reid is shortlisted for his 2023 debut novel Beautiful Beautiful (Nightwood Editions) and Kim Fu for ... Read More »
May 8, 2024
John Vaillant’s Fire Weather: The Making of a Beast (Knopf Canada) has been nominated as one of two finalists for the Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction books. Vaillant's Fire Weather, subtitled A True Story from ... Read More »
May 7, 2024
The 2024 Saskatchewan Book Awards were handed out on May 3 at a gala event in Regina. The prizes honour excellence in writing and publishing, and include the City of Regina Book Award and the ... Read More »
May 6, 2024
Helen Knott and Wayne McCrory have been named co-winners of the George Ryga Award for Social Awareness in Literature, Knott for Becoming a Matriarch (Knopf Canada) and McCrory for his book, Wild Horses of the Chilcotin ... Read More »
May 3, 2024
The finalists for the 2024 Alberta Literary Awards were announced by The Writers’ Guild of Alberta in early April. The winners will be announced at the Alberta Literary Awards Gala on June 8, during the ... Read More »
April 25, 2024
Two new spoken word poetry prizes – the Lillian Allen Prize, for an established artist, and the Lillian Allen Emerging Artist Prize, for a poet who has been working professionally for fewer than five years ... Read More »
April 24, 2024
Art Bouman has joined Fernwood Publishing as the publicity and promotions manager. He draws on his experience ... Read More »
April 23, 2024
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