“I want Nuts and Shells to be a fixture people build into their week, not a place they visit once, and I want the shelves to respond to what young readers actually want to read and see,” says bookseller Nadia Alam.
Bonny Reichert, Irene Matys, Michael Smith among Taste Canada culinary book award winners
The national bilingual awards program for culinary writing bestows gold and silver prizes in French and English in five categories.
Winners of the 2026 CCBC Book Awards revealed
Returning winners include Shari Green, Kim Spencer, Laurel Croza and Matt James.
Rights deals: Emi Sasagawa and Marsha Sasagawa, Jane’s Walk + five more
Appetite’s Robert McCullough to retire as publisher
Appetite editorial director Lindsay Paterson will take over as publisher in January 2027.
Beth Lew-Williams wins 2026 Cundill Prize
The $75,000 (U.S.) prize, administered by McGill University, is awarded annually to a book published in English that embodies historical scholarship, originality, literary quality, and broad appeal. Two finalists each receive $10,000.
Trina Moyles among 2026 Banff Mountain Book Competition award winners
Trina Moyles’s memoir Black Bear: A Story of Siblinghood and Survival is the winner of the environmental literature award. Jack Plant’s Spirit of the Great Bear received a special jury mention.
Rights deals: Jonathan Garfinkel, foreign rights for Catherine Gildiner + two more
Quebec Writers Foundation announces new literary translation mentorship
The National Literary Translation Mentorships, offered in partnership with Literary Translators Association of Canada (LTAC) and the Union des écrivaines et écrivains québécois (UNEQ), are open to emerging and established translators working from French to English or English to French who live anywhere in Canada.
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