May 17, 2018 | Filed under: Awards
Three poets have been nominated for the 2018 Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBTQ Emerging Writers. The $4,000 Writers’ Trust of Canada annual award is presented to an emerging writer from the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, ... Read More »
An anthology of contemporary Ukrainian Canadian writing has won the 2018 Kobzar Literary Award. Co-editors Lisa Grekul and Lindy Ledohowski received the $20,000 prize for Unbound: Ukrainian Canadians Writing Home featuring contributions by Janice Kulyk ... Read More »
March 5, 2018 | Filed under: Awards
IBBY Canada (International Board on Books for Young People, Canadian section) has named the nominees for the 2017 Elizabeth Mrazik-Cleaver Picture Book Award. The $1,000 prize, established in 1985 – following the death of Mrazik-Cleaver, ... Read More »
March 5, 2018 | Filed under: Awards, Children's publishing
Toronto journalist Tanya Talaga has won the $25,000 RBC Taylor Prize for Seven Fallen Feathers: Racism, Death, and Hard Truths in a Northern City (House of Anansi Press). The book recounts the lives of seven ... Read More »
February 26, 2018 | Filed under: Awards
Author, poet, and translator Gary Geddes has been awarded the 2018 Freedom to Read Award. The annual prize, presented by the Writers’ Union of Canada, honours a writer whose body of work is "passionately supportive ... Read More »
February 26, 2018 | Filed under: Awards
Dawn Dumont has been nominated for four Saskatchewan Book Awards for her short-story collection The Glass Beads (Thistledown Press), making the Plains Cree author the most celebrated at this year's literary prizes. Naturalist Trevor Herriot ... Read More »
February 26, 2018 | Filed under: Awards
Montreal author and illustrator Elise Gravel is posting free printable posters for parents and teachers on her website, telling the CBC, "Everything I do for children is to make information easily accessible, understandable and funny — ... Read More »
February 15, 2018 | Filed under: Book news, Children's publishing
Meanwhile, Elsewhere: Science Fiction and Fantasy from Transgender Writers, a speculative-fiction anthology published by Topside Press, has won the Barbara Gittings Literature Award. Co-edited by Canadian author Casey Plett and American poet Cat Fitzpatrick, the ... Read More »
February 15, 2018 | Filed under: Awards
The shortlist for the 2018 Lionel Gelber Prize has been announced by jury chair Janice Gross Stein. The five titles – selected by Stein (the Belzberg professor of conflict and global affairs at the University of ... Read More »
February 14, 2018 | Filed under: Awards
Caitlin Press is bringing back a little love to CanLit this Valentine's Day, with the release of its new non-fiction and poetry anthology, Love Me True: Writers Reflect on the Ins, Outs, Ups, and Downs ... Read More »
February 14, 2018 | Filed under: Book news