Dan K. Woo likes to be in control of the titles of his works – usually. But during the publishing process of a fiction anthology he edited by Chinese-Canadian writers, Woo brainstormed ideas for the ... Read More »
May 17, 2023
Cree poet Emily Riddle has been awarded the Griffin Poetry Prize Canadian First Book Prize for her debut collection of poetry, The Big Melt (Nightwood Editions). In their citation, the judges (poets Nikola Madzirov, Gregory ... Read More »
May 17, 2023
Sutherland House’s Ken Whyte has acquired world rights to an as-yet untitled nonfiction book by Moira Dann. The book is described as part memoir and part science survey that tells the story of the author's ... Read More »
May 17, 2023
Veteran CBC Radio host Shelagh Rogers is saying goodbye to The Next Chapter. Rogers announced on May 13 that this season will be her last, with her final episode as host of the weekly show ... Read More »
May 15, 2023
House of Anansi Press’s Shivaun Hearne has acquired Christina Myers’s Halfway Home: Thoughts from Midlife. The nonfiction book is described as exploring the uncertainty and joys of being a woman in her midlife during a ... Read More »
May 11, 2023
Chris Turner has won the $25,000 Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing. The annual award, administered by the Writers' Trust of Canada, was presented on May 10 in Ottawa at the Politics and the Pen ... Read More »
May 11, 2023
The day-to-day operations of Véhicule Press look a little different now than they would have in the press’s early days in 1973. For starters, the Montreal-based independent publisher is no longer printing their own books, ... Read More »
May 10, 2023
Winnipeg poet and educator Di Brandt has been awarded the 2023 Manitoba Arts Award of Distinction. The $30,000 award, granted by the Manitoba Arts Council, recognizes artistic excellence and contribution to the development of the ... Read More »
May 9, 2023
The finalists have been announced for this year's Indigenous Voices Awards. The annual awards, now in their sixth year, honour the sovereignty of Indigenous creative voices and support the work of Indigenous writers. Recipients of ... Read More »
May 9, 2023
Ontario Creates has announced the finalists for the 2023 Trillium Book Awards/Prix Trillium. The annual awards recognize excellence in Ontario's writers who work in both French and English. Winning authors receive $20,000, and their publishers ... Read More »
May 9, 2023
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