For eight years, Iain Higgins, a professor in the University of Victoria’s English department, sat on the board for the prestigious literary journal The Malahat Review, where he also served as associate editor.
The Toronto Book Awards announces most diverse shortlist in 44 years
In an historic first, the Toronto Book Award’s shortlist is comprised entirely of people of colour for the first time in the prize’s 44-year history.
Daily Deals: French-language rights acquired for Joshua Whitehead’s Jonny Appleseed
Loan Stars: Librarians pick their favourite upcoming September titles
Each month, Canadian library staff vote for their favourite upcoming books, via BookNet Canada’s Loan Stars readers-advisory program and the Canadian Urban Libraries Council.
B.C.-based writer Greg Brown named twice on 2018 Journey Prize longlist
B.C. writer Greg Brown has two stories on this year’s Writers’ Trust/McClelland & Stewart Journey Prize longlist.
Daily Deals: Book*hug announces new books by Chelene Knight, Johanna Skibsrud
Buckrider Books’s new editorial board acquires titles by Rasiqra Revulva and Laisha Rosnau
Tanis MacDonald: surviving as an “out-of-line” artist in a smaller community
Do you live in a major urban centre? Take this short test. You are giving a reading from your latest book at your local bookstore, and you invite a friend who lives an hour’s travel away. If your friend says instantly, “Awesome, I’ll be there,” chances are you live in a Big City. If your friend says, “What? Come all that way? On the highway?” then you probably live in a smaller city or town and belong to a group I call “out-of-line” artists.
Daily Deals: Lori Lansens sells audio rights to Brilliance Audio
Eden Robinson, Omar El Akkad among shortlisted authors for Sunburst speculative fiction prize
The shortlists for the 2018 Sunburst Award for Excellence in Canadian Literature of the Fantastic in adult, YA, and short-story fiction have been announced.
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