The jury includes finalists for the Writers’ Trust for Fiction, Governor General’s Literary Awards, the Amazon Canada First Novel Award, and the Giller.
ReLit Awards launches literary journal, teen mentorship under new executive director
Katherine Harvey spoke with Q&Q about growing up with a novelist father and her vision for the literary award’s future.
CBC announces 20th anniversary Canada Reads longlist
Mark Truscott wins inaugural Nelson Ball Prize for Canadian poetry
The $1,000 prize is awarded for outstanding poetry that exhibits an observational quality.
Finalists announced for first Nelson Ball Prize, celebrating “poetry of observation”
The winner of the $1,000 prize, as chosen by two volunteer jurors, will be announced on Dec. 14.
Desmond Cole will donate half his Toronto Book Award prize winnings as he calls for TPL, city of Toronto “to do better”
Desmond Cole called for “our institutions to do better” as he accepted the City of Toronto Book Award on Nov. 30.
Writers’ Trust honours four career authors with $25,000 prizes
Interviews with the winners will be posted on the Writers’ Trust’s Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.
Thomas King, Linda Leith among literary figures to receive 2020 Order of Canada
Among the 114 new appointees were members of the Canadian literary community, including these five figures familiar to readers of Q&Q.
Jessica J. Lee, Gil Adamson take top prizes at Writers’ Trust Books of the Year edition
Gil Adamson’s Ridgerunner won the Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize while Jessica J. Lee’s Two Trees Make a Forest won the Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction.
Andrea Benoit’s book on M·A·C and AIDS wins $30,000 National Business Book Award
The award was presented in a virtual ceremony hosted by Peter Mansbridge.
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