Author, poet, and Room managing editor Chelene Knight has won the $3,000 Vancouver Book Award for her memoir Dear Current Occupant.
Elizabeth Hay, Darrel McLeod among 10 finalists for RBC Taylor Prize
The RBC Taylor Prize, one of Canada’s most prestigious prizes for non-fiction, has announced its 10 longlisted books.
Esi Edugyan shocked by Giller Prize win; booksellers celebrate Washington Black
Esi Edugyan’s Giller Prize win has booksellers celebrating Washington Black.
Kerri Sakamoto’s Floating City wins Canada-Japan Literary Award
Kerri Sakamoto has won a $10,000 Canada-Japan Literary Award for her novel Floating City.
Marianne Dubuc takes home all three awards at the TD-Canadian Children’s Book Centre gala
On Nov. 19, the Canadian Children’s Book Centre hosted its French-language awards night in Montreal, recognizing Marianne Dubuc‘s Le chemin… Read More »
“Experimental” Joseph Conrad biography wins $75,000 Cundill History Prize
Harvard University history professor Maya Jasanoff has won the $75,000 (U.S.) Cundill History Prize for her book The Dawn Watch: Joseph Conrad in a Global World.
Andrea Torrey Balsara wins Literary Classics award
The Great & the Small is an illustrated YA fantasy novel in which rats rise up for a revolution against humans
University of King’s College, Westwood Creative Artists, and PRHC launch MFA Prize
Graduating students and alumni from the University of King’s College’s Master of Fine Arts in Creative Nonfiction program in Halifax are eligible for a new prize.
Lane Anderson Awards for science writing look to the future
Winners have been announced for the 2017 Lane Anderson Awards for science writing.
$50,000 Writers’ Trust Fellowship awarded to Charles Foran
The $50,000 prize is presented to a mid-career writer who has “demonstrated exceptional creative ability and outstanding promise in their publications to date.”
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