Bunk 11 Pictures producer Michael Baker has acquired television rights to Andrew Kaufman’s novel Born Weird. The book is described as a story of a family of siblings with special gifts who embark on a ... Read More »
August 19, 2019
Simu Liu, who portrays Jung on the popular CBC sitcom Kim’s Convenience, has been having a very good year. In July, it was announced that Liu will portray the title superhero in Marvel Studio’s forthcoming ... Read More »
August 19, 2019
After more than a decade of incubation, academic-publishing newcomer Concordia University Press is releasing its first two titles. The idea to build a publishing arm at Concordia originated in 2010 as part of the Montreal ... Read More »
August 19, 2019
“When I was first published, there were three giants of Canadian crime writing: Eric Wright, Ted Wood, and Howard Engel,” says novelist Peter Robinson. “Now the last of the three is gone.” Robinson, a giant ... Read More »
July 18, 2019
SHORT FICTION Even That Wildest Hope Seyward Goodhand Invisible Publishing, Oct. Seyward Goodhand’s short story “The Fur Trader’s Daughter” was shortlisted for the 2011 Writers’ Trust McClelland & Stewart Journey Prize. Since then, short-fiction readers ... Read More »
July 18, 2019
Howard Engel, the author of the beloved Benny Cooperman series of mysteries, has died at the age of 88. Engel's death, from pneumonia, was confirmed by his longtime agent, Beverly Slopen. Born in 1931 in ... Read More »
July 16, 2019
NOVELS Chasing Painted Horses Drew Hayden Taylor Cormorant Books, Sept. Comedian, playwright, and journalist Taylor, an Ojibway from Ontario’s Curve Lake First Nation, follows up his 2010 debut novel, Motorcycles and Sweetgrass, with another seriocomic ... Read More »
July 15, 2019
Victoria, B.C., poet Eve Joseph is the Canadian winner of the 2019 Griffin Poetry Prize for her collection Quarrels. Joseph was presented with the $65,000 prize – the most lucrative in the country for poetry ... Read More »
June 7, 2019
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