The event presented four awards: the RBC Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers in both the short fiction and poetry categories, the Writers’ Trust McClelland & Stewart Journey Prize for short fiction, and the Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBTQ Emerging Writers.
Souvankham Thammavongsa represents Canada on 2021 Griffin Poetry Prize jury
The 2021 Forest of Reading nominations shine a light on the best in Canadian kidlit
Kids and teen books by Kenneth Oppel, Mariko Tamaki, Danny Ramadan, Zalika Reid-Benta and more will be read and voted on by students in Ontario.
Mawenzi House’s Nurjehan Aziz named TIFA’s 2020 Ivy Award recipient
Gil Adamson, Zsuzsi Gartner, and Thomas King listed alongside debut authors on WT Fiction Prize shortlist
Maria Reva’s debut short-story collection Good Citizens Need Not Fear and Michelle Good’s debut novel Five Little Indians were both finalists for the $50,000 prize.
Julie S. Lalonde’s Resilience is Futile wins Speaker’s Book Award
The award recognizes non-fiction works by Ontario authors that reflect the province’s culture and history.
Giller shortlist names three novels, two short-fiction collections, no graphic novels
The winner of the $100,000 prize will be announced Nov. 9 on CBC in a presentation hosted by actor Eric McCormack.
HarperCollins Canada VP Iris Tupholme on the publisher’s four Giller noms
Alongside Emily St. John Mandel’s The Glass Hotel and Michelle Good’s Five Little Indians were two books Tupholme edited herself: Thomas King’s Indians on Vacation and Emma Donoghue’s The Pull of the Stars.
Lorna Crozier, Steven Heighton among Weston Prize finalists
The organization noted in a release that the $60,000 prize is the only one which will acknowledge general literary nonfiction writing in Canada this year.
Hamish Cameron, overseer of distribution for UTP, to receive Janice E. Handford Award
The award, which is presented by the Ontario Book Publishers Organization, is presented to someone whose work has advocated for Canada’s small literary presses.
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