The $50,000 annual prize, funded by an anonymous donor committee, alternates between the provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan and rewards a writer for their body of work and contributions to the Western Canadian literary experience.
June 23, 2026 at 01:00pm | Filed under: Awards, Industry News
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Hambrock won the $25,000 prize for her novel She’s a Lamb.
June 22, 2026 at 02:54pm | Filed under: Awards, Industry News
The prizes, now in their ninth year, honour the sovereignty of Indigenous creative voices and support the work of Indigenous writers. The recipients were announced on June 21, National Indigenous Peoples Day.
June 22, 2026 at 02:28pm | Filed under: Awards, Industry News
Each of the winners receives $6,000 for “artistic excellence in writing and illustration in English-language Canadian children’s literature.”
June 22, 2026 at 01:36pm | Filed under: Awards, Children's publishing
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George M. Abbott won the book award for Unceded: Understanding British Columbia’s Colonial Past and Why It Matters Now. Greg Nesteroff won the community history prize for The King of Sandon: Murder, Myth, & the Man Behind B.C.s Greatest Ghost Town.
June 18, 2026 at 12:23pm | Filed under: Awards
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“My local bookstore guy here, the owner of Four Points Books, asked me with all my success how my life had changed, and I said, ‘I answer a lot more emails,’” she says, laughing.
June 17, 2026 at 02:43pm | Filed under: Industry News
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The American essayist, poet, and cultural critic will be featured at an event in Toronto in September.
June 17, 2026 at 12:00am | Filed under: Awards, Industry News
Seven Canadian academics were awarded the Canada Book Prize for five books during the Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences Big Thinking Summit 2026: Inflection Point in Edmonton on June 10.
June 16, 2026 at 01:09pm | Filed under: Awards, Industry News
The prizes recognize outstanding contributions to science writing by Canadians in general and youth categories.
June 15, 2026 at 04:58pm | Filed under: Awards, Industry News
June 15, 2026 at 04:31pm | Filed under: Industry News, Personnel changes
June 15, 2026 at 04:31pm | Filed under: Deals, Industry News
The Canadian journalist won the 2026 prize for her social history The Finest Hotel in Kabul: A People’s History of Afghanistan.
June 15, 2026 at 10:11am | Filed under: Awards, Industry News
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.”
June 12, 2026 at 12:02pm | Filed under: Awards, Industry News
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