The winners of the Alberta Book Publishing Awards were announced at a gala ceremony in Calgary on Sept. 14.
Winners announced for Canadian Jewish Literary Awards
The winners of the fourth annual Canadian Jewish Literary Awards have been announced.
Giller longlist features first-timers Joshua Whitehead, Sheila Heti, Tanya Tagaq, up against previous winner Esi Edugyan
The Scotiabank Giller Prize may be turning 25 this year, but judging from this year’s 12-title longlist, the $100,000 award is still full of surprises.
The Writers’ Trust of Canada announces Journey Prize finalists
The Writers’ Trust of Canada has announced the finalists for the $10,000 McClelland & Stewart Journey Prize.
Wendy Orr, Cherie Demaline, and Monique Gray Smith among CCBC Award finalists
TD Canada has raised the value of their sponsored awards from the already significant amount of $30,000 to $50,000.
Joel Thomas Hynes, Sheilah Lukins win Newfoundland and Labrador Book Awards
Joel Thomas Hynes’s novel We’ll All Be Burnt in Our Beds Some Night and Sheilah Lukins’s children’s novel Full Speed Ahead: Errol’s Bell Island Adventure were named the winners of the 22nd Newfoundland and Labrador Book Awards in a ceremony at St. John’s Government House.
Canadian novelist Kim Thúy among four writers shortlisted for Nobel alternative
Montreal-based novelist Kim Thúy has been shortlisted for the New Prize in Literature, the prize created to replace the cancelled 2018 Nobel Prize for Literature.
National Business Book Award shortlist announced
Four titles have been announced for this year’s National Business Book Award.
Alison Pick named Wilfrid Laurier University’s new Edna Staebler Visiting Writer
Toronto author Alison Pick has been selected as Wilfrid Laurier University’s Edna Staebler Visiting Writer for the fall 2018 term.
Ann Y.K. Choi, Mireille Silcoff, and Robert J. Wiersema comprise 2018 Writers’ Trust fiction jury
A novelist, a short-story and non-fiction writer, and a fiction writer and frequent Q&Q contributor make up the jury for the 2018 Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize.
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