Quill and Quire

Events

The Jack Award

Wherein BPAC presents the Jack Award to Geoffrey Taylor. (Photos by Rannie Turingan.) A Blade of Glass author Lewis DeSoto, Before I Wake author Robert J. Wiersema, and HarperCollins Canada vice-president of sales and marketing ... Read More »

June 9, 2006 | Filed under: Events

By Q&Q Staff

Photos from McClelland & Stewart's 100th anniversary bash. (Photos by Rannie Turingan.) M&S chair Avie Bennett addresses the hundreds of people gathered at the Fermenting Cellar in the Distillery District for M&S's 100th anniversary bash ... Read More »

June 9, 2006 | Filed under: Events

Seeking the Sacred launch

By Sara Forsyth

On June 7, new Toronto indie Type Books hosted the launch of Seeking the Sacred: Leading a Spiritual Life in ... Read More »

June 7, 2006 | Filed under: Events

The Griffin Poetry Prize

By Q&Q Staff

Photos from the cocktail party, ceremony and dancing at the Griffin Poetry Prize ceremony. (Photos by Tom Sandler.) Canadian poet Erin Moure, nominated for Little Theatres, eschews the Fosbury flop on this high jump over ... Read More »

June 1, 2006 | Filed under: Events

Free to read, you and me

By Leigh Anne Williams

It's midway through Freedom to Read Week, but there's still plenty of time to get in on the action. Among the events listed on the online schedule are a mock "trial" for challenged books, to ... Read More »

March 2, 2006 | Filed under: Events, Industry news

The poet laureate's sense of child's play

By Leigh Anne Williams

The Royal Society of Literature in the U.K. asked several prominent writers to recommend essential books for schoolchildren to read. Predictably, most of the attention has converged on the list that Andrew Motion submitted: the ... Read More »

February 2, 2006 | Filed under: Events

NaNoWriMo primes young hands for arthritis

By Scott MacDonald

Some will sweat it out, some will write it off, but for those who just need deadlines to write, the seventh annual National Novel Writing Month, or NaNoWriMo, kicks off today. The event's name is ... Read More »

November 1, 2005 | Filed under: Authors, Events

Man keeps expensive Stephen King habit

By Scott MacDonald

Stephen King fans around the world watched as the right to name a zombie in his forthcoming novel was auctioned off on eBay. The auction was held to raise money for the First Amendment Project, ... Read More »

September 22, 2005 | Filed under: Authors, Events

It's Pepper time — again

By Leigh Anne Williams

The media cult around Doug Pepper continues to grow with a brief piece in the Toronto alternative weekly eye. The M&S president has made the paper's "Five for '05" list of things that "may make ... Read More »

January 6, 2005 | Filed under: Events

Dawn of the machines (in the library stacks)

By Leigh Anne Williams

The robots are coming! The online B.C. magazine The Tyee reports on the University of British Columbia library's plan to launch "a new storage system that uses robotic cranes to fetch books." Once the system's ... Read More »

November 1, 2004 | Filed under: Events

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