by Ryan Porter

Canisia Lubrin wins $65,000 Griffin Poetry Prize

Canisia Lubrin has won the $65,000 Griffin Poetry Prize for her second poetry collection, The Dyzgraphxst (McClelland & Stewart). Lubrin is currently working on a short-fiction collection for Knopf Canada in addition to serving as ... Read More »

June 23, 2021

Q&Q named honorary lifetime member of ACP; Hamish Cameron receives ACP President’s Award

By Ryan Porter

Q&Q was grateful to receive an honorary lifetime membership in the Association of Canadian Publishers on June 22. The honour, presented to “an individual or group who is not a member of ACP, but has ... Read More »

June 22, 2021

Personnel change: P.S. Literary Agency

By Ryan Porter

Jo Ramsay has joined P.S. Literary Agency as literary assistant. ... Read More »

June 22, 2021

Michelle Good, Eternity Martis win Kobo Emerging Writer Prize

By Ryan Porter

Michelle Good has won the $10,000 Kobo Emerging Writer Prize for Literary Fiction for her debut novel Five Little Indians (Harper Perennial). In the past two months, the book about five residential school survivors navigating ... Read More »

June 22, 2021

Joshua Whitehead’s Jonny Appleseed optioned for the screen

By Ryan Porter

Joshua Whitehead’s debut novel Jonny Appleseed has been optioned for the screen by Stories First. The Indigenous-owned and -operated production company is based in Vancouver. “Jonny is already such an animate kin to me, and so ... Read More »

June 17, 2021

Winners announced for Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers

By Ryan Porter

Zehra Naqvi and Anna Ling Kaye have each won the Writers’ Trust of Canada’s $10,000 RBC Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers. Two prizes are awarded annually in the categories of unpublished poetry and short ... Read More »

June 16, 2021

Bestsellers: The success of Iona Whishaw’s Lane Winslow series is no mystery

By Ryan Porter

When Iona Whishaw’s first book, a picture book called Henry and the Cow Problem, was published by Annick Press in 1995, a review ran in Q&Q: “We are sure to be hearing more from Whishaw ... Read More »

June 16, 2021

TIFA announces summer crime festival, moves to Word on the Street weekend for 2022

By Ryan Porter

The Toronto International Festival of Authors is trying some new things for 2022, launching a summer crime and mystery festival and shifting its dates from late October to late September. While this year’s festival will ... Read More »

June 16, 2021

Thomas King wins 2021 Leacock Medal

By Ryan Porter

Thomas King has won the 2021 Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour for Indians on Vacation (HarperCollins Publishers). The medal is accompanied by a $15,000 prize. The novel is about Bird and Mimi, a couple ... Read More »

June 4, 2021

Desmond Cole, Ronald J. Deibert shortlisted for $25,000 Shaughnessy Cohen Prize

By Ryan Porter

Internet privacy, the Black experience in Canada, and the fight for a woman’s right to choose are among the topics of the books shortlisted for the Writers’ Trust of Canada’s $25,000 Shaughnessy Cohen Prize. The ... Read More »

June 2, 2021

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Canisia Lubrin wins $65,000 Griffin Poetry Prize

Q&Q named honorary lifetime member of ACP; Hamish Cameron receives ACP President’s Award

Personnel change: P.S. Literary Agency

Michelle Good, Eternity Martis win Kobo Emerging Writer Prize

Joshua Whitehead’s Jonny Appleseed optioned for the screen

Winners announced for Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers

Bestsellers: The success of Iona Whishaw’s Lane Winslow series is no mystery

TIFA announces summer crime festival, moves to Word on the Street weekend for 2022

Thomas King wins 2021 Leacock Medal

Desmond Cole, Ronald J. Deibert shortlisted for $25,000 Shaughnessy Cohen Prize

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