by Steven W. Beattie

Montreal’s Concordia University finds a higher purpose with the launch of a new academic press

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

Sonnet L'Abbé

By Steven W. Beattie

Sonnet L’Abbé on overwriting the work of William Shakespeare

August 15, 2019

“He started it all, and he started it in his own way”: the legacy of Howard Engel, 1931–2019

By Steven W. Beattie

“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

Fall preview 2019: Short fiction and anthologies

By Steven W. Beattie

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

Prolific mystery novelist Howard Engel dies at age 88

By Steven W. Beattie

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

Fall preview 2019: Novels

By Steven W. Beattie

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

Eve Joseph and Kim Hyesoon win 2019 Griffin Poetry Prizes

By Steven W. Beattie

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

Janet Hawkins, program consultant at Ontario Creates, is remembered as a passionate advocate for publishers and writers

By Steven W. Beattie

Janet Hawkins loved Christmas. More than most people, perhaps. “We would decorate our area of the office into a crazy, Christmas wonderland,” says Bianca Spence, a program consultant who worked alongside Hawkins at the government ... Read More »

May 30, 2019

Casey Plett wins the 2019 Amazon First Novel Award

By Steven W. Beattie

Windsor, Ontario, writer Casey Plett has won the $60,000 Amazon First Novel Award for her debut work of full-length fiction, Little Fish, published by Arsenal Pulp Press. Set during a Winnipeg winter, the novel tells ... Read More »

May 23, 2019

“She made being human into an art”: Remembering Teva Harrison, 1976–2019

By Steven W. Beattie

I’ve never believed in an afterlife, not really. I was raised with a mishmash of beliefs, a cherry-picked amalgam of spirituality and magic, cobbled together from family tradition and Eastern practices. And most of them ... Read More »

May 10, 2019

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