For the first time, prizes in both the short fiction and poetry categories will be presented simultaneously.
Leacock Medal launches fundraising campaign to sustain prize’s future
For the past three years, the award program has been without a primary sponsor.
Indigenous justice, international relations among topics explored in shortlisted Shaughnessy Cohen titles
The $25,000 prize will be presented September 23 during a virtual version of the annual Politics and the Pen gala.
Mariko Tamaki’s graphic novel Laura Dean wins three Eisner Awards
Mariko Tamaki won Best Writer based on her 2019 work on the graphic novel Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up With Me with Rosemary Valero-O’Connell (Groundwood Books), Harley Quinn: Breaking Glass (DC), and an Archie (Archie) comics arc.
Richard Van Camp gets double nod on Sunburst Award shortlist
Edmonton author Richard Van Camp has been named twice on the shortlist for the Sunburst Award for Excellence in Canadian… Read More »
Nominees announced for the inaugural Sheila Barry picture book award
Sydney Smith and Julie Flett are two of the 10 picture-book creators on the award shortlist
Conundrum Press offering mini-comic bursary for Black and Indigenous creators
Ami McKay, Gemma Hickey double winners at Atlantic Book Awards
Zalika Reid-Benta wins $10,000 Danuta Gleed Literary Award
The Toronto writer won the $10,000 prize for her collection Frying Plantain (Astoria), a series of linked stories about a teenage girl’s coming-of-age in Toronto’s Little Jamaica neighbourhood.
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