Ontario book publishers met with players from other cultural industries at the second “Six Degrees of Integration” conference in Toronto in late January. But while ownership and technology are still pressing issues, publishers remain skeptical ... Read More »

Remainder dealer Fairmount Books raised $155,000 for the Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation of Canada with its annual charity book sale in December. That’s a healthy jump from last year’s $129,000 take, and brings the total ... Read More »

Vicki Whitmell, executive director of the Canadian Library Association, has left the position as of Wednesday, according to a CLA news release.No reason was given for the departure. Whitmell, who has worked for the CLA ... Read More »

Christian Bök, Erin Mouré, and Karen Solie are the Canadian finalists for this year’s Griffin Poetry Prize. The Griffin shortlist was announced in Ottawa yesterday; the winner of the $40,000 prize will be named at ... Read More »

The Writers’ Alliance of Newfoundland and Labrador announced the finalists for the Newfoundland and Labrador Book Awards on Friday. This year prizes are bestowed in the categories of fiction and children’s literature; poetry and non-fiction ... Read More »

Leon Rooke, Margaret Sweatman, J.M. Bumsted, and Ingeborg Boyens are among the Manitoba authors up for the McNally Robinson Book of the Year Award next month. The finalists for the $3,000 prize (sponsored by the ... Read More »

Ruth Schwartz finalists named – Such well-known Canadian children’s writers as Dennis Lee, Julie Johnston, and Brian Doyle are in the running for this year’s Ruth Schwartz Children’s Book Award. Nominees were announced this week ... Read More »

Margaret Atwood’s The Blind Assassin has made the shortlist for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, which is the world’s richest literary prize with a purse of $139,000 Cdn. The winner will be announced on ... Read More »

BC Book Prizes – Polly Horvath, Susan Crean, and Madeleine Thien were among the winners of the BC Book Prizes, which were awarded in six categories at a Vancouver gala on Saturday night. And it ... Read More »

Canada Book Day kept CanLit scorekeepers busy with a fresh round of awards.Sawai takes Danuta Gleed prize – Gloria Sawai has won this year’s Danuta Gleed Literary Award, a $5,000 annual prize for a debut ... Read More »