by Attila Berki

Publishers, editors, and writers named to the Order of Canada

Governor General Mary Simon announced the 2023 appointments to the Order of Canada on December 28, 2023. Several publishers, editors, and writers were among the 78 individuals honoured. The Order of Canada recognizes people across ... Read More »

January 4, 2024

Personnel change: Ontario Arts Council

By Attila Berki

Sue Carter has joined the Ontario Arts Council as literature officer. She was previously deputy editor at ... Read More »

December 20, 2023

Independent booksellers’ top-selling Canadian titles of 2023 so far

By Attila Berki

In the lead up to the holiday season, Kate Beaton's 2022 Canada Reads–winning graphic memoir Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands (Drawn & Quarterly Publications) sits as the top selling Canadian-authored and Canadian-published title ... Read More »

November 29, 2023

Valley of the Birdtail wins two QWF Literary Awards

By Attila Berki

The Quebec Writers’ Federation announced the winners of the 25th QWF Literary Awards at the QWF Literary Awards Gala in Montreal on Nov. 13. Andrew Stobo Sniderman and Douglas Sanderson’s Valley of the Birdtail: An ... Read More »

November 15, 2023

Excerpt from The Compassionate Imagination: How the Arts Are Central to a Functioning Democracy

By Attila Berki

Article 27 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights states that “everyone has the right freely to participate in the cultural life of the community, to enjoy the arts and to share in scientific advancement ... Read More »

November 8, 2023

B.C. authors shortlisted for Pacific Northwest Book Awards

By Attila Berki

Naomi Klein, Jules Sherred, and TD Canadian Children’s Literature Award—winner Kim Spencer have been shortlisted for the Pacific Northwest Book Awards. The prizes are administered by the The Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association. The PNBA is ... Read More »

November 7, 2023

D.M. Bradford wins John Glassco Translation Prize

By Attila Berki

Montreal-based poet and translator D.M. Bradford was named the winner of the 2023 John Glassco Translation Prize at an event in Montreal on Oct. 28. D.M. Bradford won the prize for House Within a House ... Read More »

November 7, 2023

Cheuk Kwan, Naomi Duguid among winners of 2023 Taste Canada Awards

By Attila Berki

Taste Canada announced its national, bilingual food writing awards on October 30 in Toronto at an event hosted by Ali Hassan. Gold and silver winners were named in five English-language and four French-language categories: culinary ... Read More »

November 1, 2023

Six titles shortlisted for 2024 Kobzar Book Award

By Attila Berki

The shortlist for the biennial Kobzar Book Award was announced by the Ukrainian Canadian Foundation of Taras Shevchenko on Oct. 31. The $25,000 prize recognizes outstanding contributions to Canadian literary arts by authors who write ... Read More »

November 1, 2023

Cynthia Flood on writing: Excerpt from Off the Record

By Attila Berki

The following is an excerpt from Off the Record edited by John Metcalf (Biblioasis, December 2023) In 2017, a story I wrote in the 1980s, “Twoscore and Five,” reappeared in an anthology (Making Room: Forty ... Read More »

October 25, 2023

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