by Ryan Porter

ReLit Awards launches literary journal, teen mentorship under new executive director

After 20 years, St. John’s novelist Kenneth J. Harvey has announced a new executive director for the ReLit Awards: his daughter, Katherine Alexandra Harvey. The award acknowledges the best novels, poetry, and short fiction published ... Read More »

January 7, 2021

CBC announces 20th anniversary Canada Reads longlist

By Ryan Porter

The longlist has been announced for Canada Reads, the annual CanLit face-off organized by the CBC. The 15-title longlist will be winnowed down to a shortlist on Jan. 14. The panelists for this year’s competition ... Read More »

January 6, 2021

Annie Koyama and Koyama Press: an oral history

By Ryan Porter

Like Cinderella with a temper, Kickass Annie will never be the same after midnight on Dec. 31. That’s when Koyama Press, the prolific Canadian comic arts publisher featuring the iconic Kickass Annie doodle as its ... Read More »

December 17, 2020

Mark Truscott wins inaugural Nelson Ball Prize for Canadian poetry

By Ryan Porter

Mark Truscott has won the inaugural Nelson Ball Prize for his poetry collection Branches (Book*hug Press). The $1,000 prize is awarded for outstanding poetry that exhibits an observational quality, in tribute to the minimalist nature ... Read More »

December 15, 2020

Bestseller: Gil Adamson talks award recognition for her historical novel Ridgerunner

By Ryan Porter

A lucky 13 years elapsed between Gil Adamson’s first novel, The Outlander, and its follow-up, Ridgerunner (House of Anansi Press).When the literary Western, about a thief on the run who attempts one last con to ... Read More »

December 14, 2020

LPG launches independent-press advocacy campaign

By Ryan Porter

The Literary Press Group has launched a campaign to underscore the value of independent Canadian literary presses. The #ReadUp campaign features four origami animals made from the pages of an acclaimed small-press title: Kaie Kellough’s ... Read More »

December 14, 2020

CIBA: Canadian indie booksellers blame Amazon for forcing PRH/S&S mega-merger

By Ryan Porter

The Canadian Independent Booksellers Association has released a statement expressing concern over the proposed sale of Simon & Schuster to Penguin Random House’s parent company, Bertelsmann. News of the $2.175 billion U.S. sale broke on ... Read More »

December 10, 2020

Knopf, Random House Canada to split after 11 years

By Ryan Porter

Knopf Random House Canada will split into separate imprints in 2021, Penguin Random House Canada CEO Kristin Cochrane announced in a press release on Wednesday. The imprints amalgamated in 2009. Knopf Canada will be led ... Read More »

December 9, 2020

5 ways the 2020 Type Books holiday window delivers magic in the midst of a lockdown

By Ryan Porter

It’s the most wonderful time of a year we’re all eager to forget, but Type Books’s Queen St. location in Toronto is quite literally shining some light with its annual Christmas window. Paul Dotey, bookseller, ... Read More »

December 8, 2020

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