In the past, queer fiction was so niche that our most beloved authors were largely unknown to straight readers. The tide is changing.
Omar El Akkad among winners of $10,000 Kobo Emerging Writer Prize
Omar El Akkad, Maria Qamar, and Sheena Kamal were named the winners of the third annual Kobo Emerging Writer Prizes.
Diane Schoemperlen honoured with $50,000 Canada Council Molson Prize
Kingston, Ontario–based writer Diane Schoemperlen has been awarded the $50,000 Canada Council for the Arts’ Molson Prize.
Sydney Smith wins prestigious Kate Greenaway Medal
Smith was in attendance at the June 18 CILIP event, held at the British Library in London, and he gave a moving speech: “Too often you believe that growing up in a small town is unrelatable… it’s in the quiet moments that we see the stories that we share.”
Tanya Talaga, Joanne Robertson win Indigenous Literature Award
A jury of Indigenous librarians from across Ontario have selected Tanya Talaga’s Seven Fallen Feathers: Racism, Death, and Hard Truths in a Northern City and Joanne Robertson’s The Water Walker as the winners of the fifth annual Indigenous Literature Award.
The League of Canadian Poets announces winners of the 2018 Annual Poetry Awards
The League of Canadian Poets has named the winners of the 2018 Annual Poetry Awards.
Why Rahim Ladha has committed $34,800 a year to two new monthly literary prizes
Two new monthly literary prizes, worth $1,000 each, have been announced by Toronto fundraising consultant Rahim Ladha.
Q&A: Griffin Poetry Prize winner Billy-Ray Belcourt
On June 7, Billy-Ray Belcourt became the youngest recipient to take home the $65,000 Griffin Poetry Prize.
Jennifer Craig wins Leacock Medal for Gone to Pot
Nelson, B.C.-based author Jennifer Craig has won the $15,000 Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour for Gone to Pot.
At 23, Billy-Ray Belcourt becomes youngest winner of the Griffin Poetry Prize
Billy-Ray Belcourt, self-described “writer and academic and hopeless romantic,” won the Canadian Griffin Poetry Prize on June 7 for his debut collection of poetry, This Wound is a World (Frontenac House).
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