by Attila Berki

Jasmine Sealy wins the 2023 Amazon Canada First Novel Award

Vancouver-based Barbadian-Canadian writer Jasmine Sealy has been named the winner of the 2023 Amazon Canada First Novel Award for The Island of Forgetting (HarperAvenue). The prize, worth $60,000, was announced at a live ceremony ... Read More »

May 31, 2023

Anthony Bidulka, Thomas King, and Sam Shelstad among 2023 Crime Writers of Canada award winners

By Attila Berki

The Crime Writers of Canada announced the winners of their 2023 Awards of Excellence in an online ceremony on May 25. In addition to the 10 book prizes, Jack Batten received the Derrick Murdoch Award, ... Read More »

May 26, 2023

Shortlists for 2023 Western Canada Jewish Book Awards announced

By Attila Berki

The Western Canada Jewish Book Awards have announced their 2023 shortlists. The awards celebrate excellence in writing on Jewish themes and subjects from Western Canadian authors. Each winner receives $2,000. The winners will be named ... Read More »

May 10, 2023

Kate Beaton and Jonathan Dyck among 2023 Doug Wright Award winners

By Attila Berki

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

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