Billy-Ray Belcourt, self-described “writer and academic and hopeless romantic,” won the Canadian Griffin Poetry Prize on June 7 for his debut collection of poetry, This Wound is a World (Frontenac House).
Personnel change: Word Vancouver hires Chelene Knight as executive director
The Word Vancouver festival has hired Chelene Knight as executive director.
Pedlar Press founder Beth Follett looks forward to returning to her own writing after more than 20 years of nurturing writers’ books
When Pedlar Press founder Beth Follett was a young woman growing up in 1970s Winnipeg, she wanted to become a poet.
Kidlit Fall Preview: Non-fiction, series, and international titles
The best children’s non-fiction, series, and international titles due from Canadian publishers this fall.
Kidlit Fall Preview: Middle-grade
More preteens, more problems: Life’s never easy for fictitious middle-graders, but the characters in these new novels are endlessly resourceful.
Kidlit Fall Preview: Young adult
She persisted: This fall’s YA books feature young women with a cause, on a mission, or (in one case) plagued with leprosy.
Personnel change: Nimbus Publishing
Daily Deals: Greystone acquires two books by Carla Funk
Kidlit Fall Preview: debuts
Authors new to kidlit go to some intense and moody places.
Kidlit Fall Preview: picture books
Explore history, geography, art, nature, family, community, and more in this season’s illustrated books.
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