Toronto author Alison Pick has been selected as Wilfrid Laurier University’s Edna Staebler Visiting Writer for the fall 2018 term.
Toronto Public Library sets world record by lending 20 million ebooks
The Toronto Public Library is the first library in the world to lend 20 million ebooks.
Canadian-born publisher John Calder, known for censorship battles, published Beckett, Ionesco, Duras, and Selby Jr.
The Montreal-born publisher John Calder, who died last week at the age of 91, was instrumental in battling the forces of censorship in the postwar 20th century.
Daily deals: TV rights sold to Karen K. Ho true-crime article
Ann Y.K. Choi, Mireille Silcoff, and Robert J. Wiersema comprise 2018 Writers’ Trust fiction jury
A novelist, a short-story and non-fiction writer, and a fiction writer and frequent Q&Q contributor make up the jury for the 2018 Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize.
Vivek Shraya seizes power through vulnerability in her patriarchy-detonating manifesto I’m Afraid of Men
Self-empowerment has been on multidisciplinary artist Vivek Shraya’s mind as she prepares to launch her memoir-manifesto I’m Afraid of Men (Penguin Canada). The volume shares its title with a song on Part-Time Woman, Shraya’s Polaris Music Prize–longlisted EP with the Queer Songbook Orchestra. But “I’m afraid of men” also serves as a thesis statement for her confessional, confrontational critique of our male-centred culture.
Daily deals: ECW announces two sports titles
Personnel changes: Invisible Publishing names Del Cowie editor of Bibliophonic series
Personnel changes: Annick Press hires children’s author/illustrator Paul Covello
Non-fiction jury announced for Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize
The jury for the Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Non-fiction has been announced.
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