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John Martz named IBBY and TPL’s 2015 illustrator-in-residence

IBBY Canada and Toronto Public Library have named children's book cartoonist John Martz as the 2015 Joanne Fitzgerald illustrator-in-residence. Martz's residency will take place during the month of October at the Northern District Branch, where ... Read More »

September 29, 2015 | Filed under: People

Heritage Toronto honours Milton Acorn and Gwendolyn MacEwen

By Becky Robertson

Heritage Toronto is due to honour poet and playwright Milton Acorn and his former wife, author and CBC radio docudrama writer Gwendolyn MacEwen*, with a plaque on Toronto's Ward's Island. Acorn (1923–1986), a Charlottetown, P.E.I., ... Read More »

August 18, 2015 | Filed under: Authors, Book culture, People

Writers at Woody Point rename Heritage Theatre after Shelagh Rogers

By Becky Robertson

The Writers at Woody Point literary festival held in Newfoundland's Bonne Bay region, presented annually by Friends of Writers at Woody Point, has renamed its historic Heritage Theatre after the festival's host, CBC Radio's Shelagh ... Read More »

August 17, 2015 | Filed under: Events, People

“Modernism has come to Canada”: the enduring legacy of Dave Godfrey

By Steven W. Beattie

Dave Godfrey, who died of pancreatic cancer earlier this week, embodied a series of contradictions. He was a staunch cultural nationalist who set his best-known work of fiction in Africa; an author who prized linguistic ... Read More »

June 25, 2015 | Filed under: Authors, People

Dave Godfrey, Governor General’s Literary Award winner and co-founder of House of Anansi Press, dies

By Steven W. Beattie

Dave Godfrey was many things: an author and publisher who was at the forefront of the CanLit explosion in the 1960s and ’70s, a teacher, a software developer, and a vintner. He was also a ... Read More »

June 24, 2015 | Filed under: Authors, People

Cover to cover: Chris Tompkins on designing Mark Anthony Jarman’s Knife Party at the Hotel Europa

By Q&Q Staff

Designer Chris Tompkins cycles through travel imagery and film-noir tropes to create the look and feel of Mark Anthony Jarman’s story collection Knife Party at the Hotel Europa (Goose Lane Editions) 1. Before getting ... Read More »

June 5, 2015 | Filed under: People, Writing life

Superhero illustrator Darwyn Cooke draws on 1980s Toronto for his Revengeance series

By Carsten Knox

You can tell by the way Darwyn Cooke raves about the design elements of an old Toronto coffee shop that he spent his early creative career as a magazine art director. The Lite Bite Coffee ... Read More »

May 6, 2015 | Filed under: Authors, People

80 years of Q&Q: getting personal with CanLit personalities

By Q&Q Staff

In 1956, Timothy Findley published his debut story in the Tamarack Review, motivated by some friendly generational griping from his friend, actress Ruth Gordon (Harold and Maude). During a 1981 interview with Canadian Literature, Findley ... Read More »

April 15, 2015 | Filed under: Book culture, People

80 years of Q&Q: comics & graphica, from Captain Canuck to D&Q

By Q&Q Staff

Canadian comics get a second chance The mid- to late 1970s brought a wave of nostalgia to comics, and with it, Canada’s Silver Age. These comics, consistent in their production values with most mainstream (i.e., ... Read More »

April 14, 2015 | Filed under: Authors, Book culture, People, Writing life

80 years of Q&Q: notable titles, from cookbooks to LGBT classics

By Q&Q Staff

BRANDING GENERATION X Douglas Coupland’s debut novel wasn’t an instant hit when it was published in the spring of 1991, but it didn’t take long before critics and media saw the appeal in combining the ... Read More »

April 14, 2015 | Filed under: Authors, Book culture, People, Writing life

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