Margaret Atwood gave a keynote address, Alistair MacLeod, Austin Clarke, and Barry Callaghan signed books, and Quebec publishing was named next year’s showcase subject. Canadian visibility was high at the Guadalajara International Book Fair in ... Read More »

Two more titles originally published by The Porcupine’s Quill have followed their authors to larger houses. The small literary press has sold Michael Winter’s 1999 short-story collection One Last Good Look to House of Anansi ... Read More »

Calgary author Ken McGoogan will hit New York City next week to accept a U.S. prize. McGoogan has won a Christopher Award for his book Fatal Passage: The Untold Story of John Rae, the Arctic ... Read More »

Toronto writer Nathan Whitlock has won the Writers’ Union of Canada-administered Emerging Artist Award in Creative Writing, worth $5,000. A jury made up of authors Cynthia Holz, Kim Moritsugu, and Paul Quarrington considered more than ... Read More »

The Department of Canadian Heritage yesterday named Gordon Platt director of book publishing policy and programs. Platt, the longtime head of the writing and publishing arm of the Canada Council for the Arts, begins Mar. ... Read More »

Winnipeg’s Signature Editions has hit on a novel way to promote a new title: the book’s launch will double as a panel discussion on the state of Canadian theatre. Robert Astle’s Theatre Without Borders profiles ... Read More »

Giller Prize-winner Austin Clarke is helping to raise funds for a Toronto literary magazine by hosting a public gourmet dinner next week. Pagitica, a three-year-old literary magazine, publishes fiction, poetry, criticism, and interviews. The magazine ... Read More »

The Toronto Public Library’s Merril Collection of science fiction will get its own writer-in-residence this spring: author Robert J. Sawyer. Sawyer, who lives in nearby Mississauga, will occupy the position from Apr. 1 through June ... Read More »

Freedom to Read Week, which runs until next Saturday, will be marked with events across the country over the next several days. On Thursday night, Vancouver’s Arsenal Pulp Press and Little Sister’s Book & Art ... Read More »