The $5,000 award is granted to someone whose work has made Canadian history engaging and broadly accessible.
Poet Anne-Marie Turza awarded inaugural Writer’s Trust Board Fellowship
The fellowship, which comes with $50,000 and a two-week residency at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, will reward one writer annually for “exceptional creative ability and outstanding promise in their publications to date.”
Andre Alexis shortlisted for 2026 Story Prize
The $20,000 (U.S.) prize is awarded annually for the best short-story collection published originally in English in the U.S the previous year.
Giller Prize names all-indie bookseller jury for 2026 prize
For the first time, the Giller Prize has named a jury made entirely of independent Canadian booksellers in what the prize calls “a radical reimagining” of its selection process.
15 books named to 2026 CBC Reads longlist
The five panellists for this year’s competition – and the books each panellist has chosen to champion – will be announced on Jan. 22.
Michelle Good and Elizabeth MacLeod among 2025 Order of Canada appointees
Governor General Mary Simon announced 80 new appointments to the Order on Dec. 31, 2025.
Hamilton Literary Awards winners announced
The awards recognize the best published work by authors from the Greater Hamilton Area and Six Nations of the Grand River.
Aaron Williams wins 2025 Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction
Williams won the $10,000 prize for his second book of nonfiction, The Last Logging Show: A Forestry Family at the End of an Era, published by Harbour Publishing.
Vince Beiser wins 2025 Balsillie Prize for Public Policy
Beiser has won the $70,000 prize for his book Power Metal: The Race for the Resources That Will Shape the Future.
Mélikah Abdelmoumen shortlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Nonfiction
Baldwin, Styron, and Me, published by Windsor-based Biblioasis, is one of three books shortlisted for the ALA prize.
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