by Inderjit Deogun

Winners of the Second Story Press Indigenous writing contest announced

Kurt Wilson, writing as Bear Meawasige, a member of Serpent River First Nation, has been named the overall winner of Second Story Press’s 2025 Indigenous Writing Contest for his YA manuscript In the Long Shadows. ... Read More »

June 24, 2025

IBBY Canada launching writing contest for Indigenous youth

By Inderjit Deogun

IBBY Canada (International Board on Books for Young People) will launch a writing contest aimed at Indigenous youth this fall. The contest, made possible with the support of the IBBY Yamada Fund, invites Indigenous youth aged ... Read More »

June 23, 2025

Roy Henry Vickers

By Inderjit Deogun

“When we create from inspiration, it’s greater than ourselves,” says Roy Henry Vickers

June 18, 2025

Bestsellers: Top 10 Canadian Books for Young Readers, June 8–14

By Inderjit Deogun

June 18, 2025

Winners of the 2025 Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Children’s Book Awards announced

By Inderjit Deogun

The winners of the 2025 Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Children’s Book Awards were revealed on June 13. Each of the winners receives $6,000 for “artistic excellence in writing and illustration in English-language Canadian children’s literature.” ... Read More »

June 16, 2025

Bestsellers: Top 10 Canadian Fiction, June 1–7

By Inderjit Deogun

June 11, 2025

Excerpt from Birch and Jay by Allister Thompson

By Inderjit Deogun

For whatever reason, we were always to set out at dawn on these expeditions, to maximize the amount of ground we could cover before nightfall, I suppose, considering the middle of the day was often too hot to ... Read More »

June 4, 2025