by Ryan Porter

Book*hug revising pulled poetry collection

Toronto publisher Book*hug has announced plans to issue a revised edition of Shannon Webb-Campbell’s poetry collection Who Took My Sister? The small press pulled the book in April upon learning that Webb-Campbell, a Montreal-based poet ... Read More »

June 14, 2018

Why Rahim Ladha has committed $34,800 a year to two new monthly literary prizes

By Ryan Porter

Two new monthly literary prizes, worth $1,000 each, have been announced by Toronto fundraising consultant Rahim Ladha. Spark – a new monthly literary prize for Canadian queer, trans, two-spirited, Black, or Indigenous writers – is ... Read More »

June 13, 2018

Diversity driving sales in kidlit, says Book Summit keynote Zareen Jaffery

By Ryan Porter

Growing up in an affluent Connecticut neighbourhood, Zareen Jaffery – keynote speaker at the Toronto publishing conference Book Summit on June 14 – didn’t see a South Asian person outside of her family until Grade ... Read More »

June 13, 2018

Jennifer Craig wins Leacock Medal for Gone to Pot

By Ryan Porter

Nelson, B.C.–based author Jennifer Craig has won the $15,000 Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour for Gone to Pot (Second Story Press). The novel is about a grandmother who, in a moment of financial desperation, ... Read More »

June 10, 2018

Daily Deals: Anansi acquires Michael Melgaard’s short-story collection Coming and Going

By Ryan Porter

House of Anansi Press editor Douglas Richmond has acquired world rights to Michael Melgaard’s debut short-story collection, Coming and Going, for Anansi’s Astoria imprint. The stories take place in a small town on Canada’s West Coast, ... Read More »

June 8, 2018

At 23, Billy-Ray Belcourt becomes youngest winner of the Griffin Poetry Prize

By Ryan Porter

Billy-Ray Belcourt, self-described “writer and academic and hopeless romantic,” won the Griffin Poetry Prize on June 7 for his debut collection, This Wound is a World (Frontenac House). At 23, the 2016 Rhodes Scholar from ... Read More »

June 8, 2018

Personnel change: Word Vancouver hires Chelene Knight as executive director

By Ryan Porter

The Word Vancouver festival has hired Chelene Knight as executive director. Knight is currently the managing editor at Room magazine and programming director of the Vancouver-based feminist literary festival Growing Room. She is also the ... Read More »

June 7, 2018

Aviaq Johnston, Billy-Ray Belcourt top first annual Indigenous Voices Awards

By Ryan Porter

YA author Aviaq Johnston and poet Billy-Ray Belcourt were among the winners of the inaugural Indigenous Voices Awards on May 29 in Regina. The prize, founded as a response to the notorious “Appropriation Prize” that ... Read More »

May 31, 2018

Daily Deals: Chronicle acquires Susan Wenzel’s My Happy Life in an Open Marriage

By Ryan Porter

Chronicle Books editor Rachel Hiles has acquired English-language rights in North America to Winnipeg sex therapist Susan Wenzel’s My Happy Life in an Open Marriage: How I Dealt with Jealousy and You Can, Too. Wenzel and ... Read More »

May 30, 2018

Tanya Talaga, Cherie Dimaline shortlisted for Indigenous Literature Awards

By Ryan Porter

Ten titles have been shortlisted for the Indigenous Literature Awards, with five competing in the Children’s Category and five competing in the YA and Adult Category. The winners will be announced in Toronto at Yonge-Dundas ... Read More »

May 30, 2018

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Book*hug revising pulled poetry collection

Why Rahim Ladha has committed $34,800 a year to two new monthly literary prizes

Diversity driving sales in kidlit, says Book Summit keynote Zareen Jaffery

Jennifer Craig wins Leacock Medal for Gone to Pot

Daily Deals: Anansi acquires Michael Melgaard’s short-story collection Coming and Going

At 23, Billy-Ray Belcourt becomes youngest winner of the Griffin Poetry Prize

Personnel change: Word Vancouver hires Chelene Knight as executive director

Aviaq Johnston, Billy-Ray Belcourt top first annual Indigenous Voices Awards

Daily Deals: Chronicle acquires Susan Wenzel’s My Happy Life in an Open Marriage

Tanya Talaga, Cherie Dimaline shortlisted for Indigenous Literature Awards

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