The $5,000 award, administered by the Sunshine Coast Festival of the Written Arts, recognizes “an outstanding book of fiction or non-fiction written by a British Columbia author and traditionally published by a BC-based publisher.”
Leila Marshy wins the Danuta Gleed Literary Award
Rights deals: Patrice Dutil, Linden MacIntyre + eight more
Otoniya J. Okot Bitek, Hajer Mirwali named 2026 Trillium Book Award winners
Sarah Migneron and Lisa L’Heureux were named the winners of the 2026 Prix Trillium.
Summer Reads: Books for Young People
Summer Reads: The Beautiful Game
Excerpt from Blood Typed: A Val Jenkins Mystery by Jane Doucet
Summer Reads: Adult Fiction and Nonfiction
As late spring shifts to summer, beach read season is nearly upon us. Q&Q takes a look at some of the highlights from the season’s fresh crop of books.
Griffin Poetry Prize to reinstate Canadian Poetry Prize
In an announcement on June 10, the trustees of the prize announced that the $65,000 Canadian Poetry Prize would be reinstated, along with a number of other changes to the prize.
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