Q&Q’s June issue celebrated the publishing industry’s innovative, generous spirit during the trials of COVID-19.

Stories of strength and resilience: the publishing community’s heroes, chosen by you
Q&Q asked the publishing community to nominate heroes who have in some way, big or small, contributed to sustaining the industry.
In the wake of layoffs, Banff will offer two literary arts workshops online for fall
The three-day courses, dedicated to investigative journalism and to genre fiction, will be held online.
Essay: Timothy Findley believed that in times of crisis, imagination has the power to save
Sherrill Grace, an officer of the Order of Canada, on Timothy Findley’s prescient plague writing.
Indigo closes 20 Coles small-format stores amid “seismic” losses
The closed stores were described as either “not profitable or very, very marginal.”

Author Marilee Peters adds new COVID-19 chapter to Patient Zero, her middle-grade pandemic primer
When the non-fiction book was published by Annick Press in 2014 it sold 9,000 copies. Since March, it’s sold 20,000 more.
Indie-bookseller platform Bookmanager are heroes of the pandemic
Chances are if you’ve ordered a book online from an indie bookseller, you have interacted with Bookmanager.
Toronto’s Word on the Street to go virtual
The really interesting question is how do you do create that sense of being at Word on the Street?

Five debut authors share the stories behind their work
Q&Q spotlights a few of the exciting new voices you may have missed.
Four trend-setting authors show off their favourite #BookLooks inspired by Canadian literature
Authors take on the social-media challenge to support Canadian literature.