Toronto poet Gwen Benaway’s 2018 collection Holy Wild (Book*hug) has been named a finalist in the Trans and Gender-Variant Literature category at the Triangle Awards.
Canadian non-fiction from Peter Edwards, Anne T. Donahue optioned for TV series
Books by three Canadian authors – Peter Edwards, Anne T. Donahue, and Michael Arntfield – have been optioned by production company New Metric Media.
Novelist Joan Clark on her first film adaptation An Audience of Chairs and her personal connection to the mental-health drama
Novelist Joan Clark on having her first film adaptation An Audience of Chairs.
David Chariandy wins Windham-Campbell Prize
Vancouver author David Chariandy has been named a Windham-Campbell Prize winner for his body of work.
Beverly McLachlin memoir to Simon & Schuster, NeWest Press announces four titles
Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha finalist for the Triangle Awards
Toronto author Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha has been named a finalist for the Judy Grahn Award for Lesbian Nonfiction at the Triangle Awards for her essay collection Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice.
Literary conversations will anchor Halifax’s inaugural AfterWords festival
Halifax has gone 10 years without a literary festival, but that will change this fall with the launch of the inaugural AfterWords.
Mariko Tamaki’s fresh and quirky take on Harley Quinn
The Caldecott Honor winner talks comics and drag queens in this first look at Harley Quinn, Breaking Glass.
Distribution change: Nimbus Publishing
“I think it was poetry that saved me from killing myself or killing others”: remembering Patrick Lane, 1939–2019
Patrick Lane, who died on March 7 at the age of 79, was “one of the permanent figures of Canadian poetry.”
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