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. Lit Wine & Books 321 ... Read More »
September 9, 2026
The Griffin Poetry Prize has announced the trio of poets who will form the jury for the 2027 prize. Canadian poet and Griffin Poetry Prize winner Ken Babstock is joined on the jury by Italian poet ... Read More »
September 9, 2026
Five writers have been named finalists for the 2026 Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction. The $75,000 award, now in its 16th year, recognizes excellence in literary nonfiction and is supported by the Hilary ... Read More »
September 9, 2026
Arsenal Pulp Press’s Lindsay Wong has acquired Phoenix Poon’s Fox Fox Flux as the first title for the 9-Tailed Fox imprint. The novel is described as a contemporary coming-of-age novel that follows a “bad Asian” ... Read More »
September 8, 2026
Molly Campbell has joined Penguin Random House Canada as senior publicist for the Canada Launch team, focusing on publicity for Appetite, Penguin Canada, and Knopf Canada titles. Yilda Boukhtouchen has joined the insights and analytics ... Read More »
September 8, 2026
A new $20,000 prize has been launched to honour thriller and horror writing in Canada. The Andrew Pyper Prize for Genre Fiction is an independent prize administered in partnership with the Writers' Trust of Canada. ... Read More »
September 8, 2026
Fourteen books have been longlisted for the 2026 Giller Prize. A shortlist for the annual $100,000 prize will be announced on Oct. 5, with the winner to be named at an event in Toronto on ... Read More »
September 8, 2026
Greystone Books’s Jennifer Croll has acquired world rights to author of Curtains Tom Jokinen’s Honk!: Geese, Migration and the Search for Home. The nonfiction book is described as a lyrical exploration of the nature of geese and ... Read More »
September 4, 2026
The West Coast Book Prize Society has announced the six books shortlisted for the 2026 Vancouver Book Award. The annual $3,000 prize recognizes a book of any genre that contributes to an understanding of the ... Read More »
September 3, 2026
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