by Attila Berki

Kate Beaton and Jonathan Dyck among 2023 Doug Wright Award winners

The winners of the 19th annual Doug Wright Awards were announced in Toronto on Saturday, April 29, in conjunction with the Toronto Comic Arts Festival. The awards for Canadian cartooning annually honour excellence in comics (including ... Read More »

May 1, 2023

Personnel change: Véhicule Press

By Attila Berki

Michael Prior joins Véhicule Press as the editor of the Signal Editions poetry imprint. He takes over the ... Read More »

April 12, 2023

2023 Alberta Literary Awards finalists announced

By Attila Berki

The 2023 Alberta Literary Awards finalists were announced by the Writers’ Guild of Alberta (WGA) on April 4. The awards honour excellence in literary work written by Alberta authors and published or created in 2021–22. ... Read More »

April 10, 2023

Finalists announced for Robert Kroetsch City of Edmonton Book Prize and the City of Calgary W.O. Mitchell Book Prize

By Attila Berki

The finalists for the City of Calgary W.O. Mitchell Book Prize and the Robert Kroetsch City of Edmonton Book Prize, both administered by the Writers' Guild of Alberta, were announced on April 3 and 5, ... Read More »

April 10, 2023

White Riot presents multi-faceted view of anti-Asian racism through the lens of an early 20th-century riot

By Attila Berki

Several projects led multidisciplinary artist Henry Tsang to his first book, White Riot: The 1907 Anti-Asian Riots in Vancouver, published this month by Arsenal Pulp Press. Among these was 2018’s RIOT FOOD HERE, his pop-up ... Read More »

April 5, 2023

The preservationist ethos of publishing work posthumously

By Attila Berki

In April 2022, Dan Wells posted on the Biblioasis website something no publisher wishes to undertake: an in memoriam for an author he held in high regard. Celebrating Toronto-born writer Steven Heighton’s prolific career (republished by ... Read More »

March 22, 2023

Gavin Bradley wins 2023 Bridges of Struga International Poetry Award

By Attila Berki

Gavin Bradley, author of Separation Anxiety (University of Alberta Press, 2022), is the winner of the 2023 Bridges of Struga International Poetry Award for best debut book of poetry. This is the first time a book from a ... Read More »

March 22, 2023

Canadians among 2023 Lambda Literary Award finalists

By Attila Berki

Finalists in 25 categories were announced for the 2023 Lambda Literary Awards, and a number of Canadian authors, including Danny Ramadan, John Brady McDonald, and Angeline Jackson, were among those shortlisted. The winners will be ... Read More »

March 15, 2023

New art book gives textile artist Mariette Rousseau-Vermette her overdue recognition

By Attila Berki

As a former educator and researcher-writer at the National Gallery of Canada (NGC), Anne Newlands is all too familiar with the way women’s art has been historically undervalued and under-represented on the walls and in ... Read More »

March 15, 2023

New Society Publishers shortlisted for LBF’s international Sustainability Initiative Award

By Attila Berki

New Society Publishers is one of three publishers shortlisted for the inaugural Sustainability Initiative Award, an International Excellence Award presented by the London Book Fair. The new prize aims to acknowledge organizations championing environmental efforts in publishing. ... Read More »

March 15, 2023

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Kate Beaton and Jonathan Dyck among 2023 Doug Wright Award winners

Personnel change: Véhicule Press

2023 Alberta Literary Awards finalists announced

Finalists announced for Robert Kroetsch City of Edmonton Book Prize and the City of Calgary W.O. Mitchell Book Prize

White Riot presents multi-faceted view of anti-Asian racism through the lens of an early 20th-century riot

The preservationist ethos of publishing work posthumously

Gavin Bradley wins 2023 Bridges of Struga International Poetry Award

Canadians among 2023 Lambda Literary Award finalists

New art book gives textile artist Mariette Rousseau-Vermette her overdue recognition

New Society Publishers shortlisted for LBF’s international Sustainability Initiative Award

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