by Cassandra Drudi

Ottawa Book Awards announce 2025 shortlists

The Ottawa Book Awards have announced three shortlists for the 2025 awards. The annual awards, granted in three categories, honour literary excellence in French and English books by Ottawa writers in the previous year. The ... Read More »

September 17, 2025

OBPO calls on Ontario to earmark funds for Canadian books in education

By Cassandra Drudi

The Ontario Book Publishers Organization is drawing attention to the longstanding under-representation of Canadian books in Ontario schools and calling on the provincial government to create a fund that would allow public schools and libraries ... Read More »

September 17, 2025

Shortlist announced for 2025 Atwood Gibson Writers’ Trust Prize

By Cassandra Drudi

Five books have been shortlisted for the 2024 Atwood Gibson Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize. This year, the Writers' Trust has announced that the purse for the annual prize will rise to $70,000, with finalists to ... Read More »

September 17, 2025

14 books longlisted for 2025 Giller Prize

By Cassandra Drudi

The longlist for the 2025 Giller Prize has been announced, and the 14-book list of titles vying for the annual $100,000 prize this year includes a mix of works from veteran and debut authors and ... Read More »

September 15, 2025

Personnel changes: Penguin Random House Canada

By Cassandra Drudi

Vanessa Quon has joined Tundra Book Group as production editor. Emma Lockhart has been promoted to associate ... Read More »

September 11, 2025

Rights deal: Angela Hollett

By Cassandra Drudi

Rebel Goose Books’s Susan Pi has acquired world rights to Angela Hollett’s The Way I Win. The picture book is described as telling the story of a neurodivergent boy who learns that thinking differently is ... Read More »

September 11, 2025

Nalo Hopkinson wins 2025 Sunburst Award

By Cassandra Drudi

Nalo Hopkinson has won the $3,000 2025 Sunburst Award for Canadian Literature of the Fantastic -- making her a three-time winner of the award. Hopkinson was named the winner of this year's prize for her ... Read More »

September 11, 2025

New Alberta order bans sexually explicit images from school libraries

By Cassandra Drudi

Days after the Alberta government paused a controversial ministerial order that would have affected the books school libraries were able to make available to students this fall, Education Minister Demetrios Nicolaides has issued a new ... Read More »

September 10, 2025

California judge hits pause on Anthropic AI settlement to authors

By Cassandra Drudi

A $1.5 billion settlement that was proposed to address a ruling earlier this year that AI company Anthropic had violated copyright in acquiring pirated books to train its AI chatbots has been put on hold, ... Read More »

September 10, 2025

Shop Talk: Joie de Livres

By Cassandra Drudi

Shop Talk is an occasional feature in which fledgling independent booksellers take Q&Q into their stores and share their reasons for opening and what business has been like so far. Joie de Livres 5163 St-Laurent ... Read More »

September 10, 2025

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Ottawa Book Awards announce 2025 shortlists

OBPO calls on Ontario to earmark funds for Canadian books in education

Shortlist announced for 2025 Atwood Gibson Writers’ Trust Prize

14 books longlisted for 2025 Giller Prize

Personnel changes: Penguin Random House Canada

Rights deal: Angela Hollett

Nalo Hopkinson wins 2025 Sunburst Award

New Alberta order bans sexually explicit images from school libraries

California judge hits pause on Anthropic AI settlement to authors

Shop Talk: Joie de Livres

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