Awards

Paul Carlucci wins Danuta Gleed Award

The Writers' Union of Canada announced over the weekend that Paul Carlucci has been named the winner of the 2013 Danuta Gleed Award, presented each year to the best debut story collection in English. The ... Read More »

June 2, 2014 | Filed under: Awards

Erin Frances Fisher wins RBC Bronwen Wallace Award

By Dory Cerny

Victoria writer and pianist Erin Frances Fisher is this year's recipient of the RBC Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers. The award, administered by the Writers' Trust of Canada with the support of the RBC ... Read More »

May 28, 2014 | Filed under: Awards

The Writers’ Alliance of Newfoundland and Labrador announces 2014 winners

By Julie Baldassi

Lisa Moore has been named winner of the Writers’ Alliance of Newfoundland and Labrador fiction award for her 2013 novel Caught (House of Anansi Press), a nominee for last year’s Scotiabank Giller Prize and Rogers ... Read More »

May 27, 2014 | Filed under: Awards

David Stouck wins second annual Basil Stuart-Stubbs award

By Julie Baldassi

Vancouver author David Stouck is the winner of the second annual Basil Stuart-Stubbs Prize for Outstanding Scholarly Book on British Columbia for his acclaimed biography of Arthur Erickson, a renowned architect and urban planner. Stouck ... Read More »

May 26, 2014 | Filed under: Awards

The Third Rail, by Jim Leech and Jacquie McNish, wins National Business Book Award

By Steven W. Beattie

Jim Leech and Jacquie McNish have won the $20,000 National Business Book Award for The Third Rail: Confronting Our Pension Failures. Published by McClelland & Stewart imprint Signal, the book examines the current state of ... Read More »

May 26, 2014 | Filed under: Awards

Atlantic Book Award winners announced

By Julie Baldassi

This year’s Atlantic Book Awards put the spotlight on Prince Edward Island, with Acorn Press taking two prizes for Ni’n na L’nu: The Mi’kmaq of Prince Edward Island by Jesse Francis and A.J.B. Johnston, and ... Read More »

May 22, 2014 | Filed under: Awards

English- and Cree-language picture book wins First Nation Communities Read

By Stuart Woods

The selection for this year's First Nation Communities Read campaign is Wild Berries/Pakwa che Menisu, a picture book by Vancouver-based author and illustrator Julie Flett. Flett is also the recipient of the inaugural Aboriginal Literature ... Read More »

May 22, 2014 | Filed under: Awards, Book news

Ontario Trillium Book Award nominees announced

By Sue Carter

Fiction, poetry, theatre, and creative non-fiction are represented among the English-language nominees for this year's Trillium Book Award, which recognizes books by Ontario authors published in any genre. Three poets were also nominated for the ... Read More »

May 21, 2014 | Filed under: Awards

2014 Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Award winners announced

By Dory Cerny

The winners of the 2014 Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Children's Book Awards were announced today at Aldergrove Public School in Markham, Ontario. Veteran Montreal author Anne Villeneuve was honoured in the picture book category for ... Read More »

May 20, 2014 | Filed under: Awards, Children's publishing

Forest of Reading announces winners

By Sue Carter

It was a soggy two days in Toronto, but that didn't stop more than 8,000 school-age kids from enjoying the Ontario Library Association’s Forest of Reading festival this week at Toronto’s Harbourfront Centre. The annual ... Read More »

May 16, 2014 | Filed under: Awards

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