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HarperCollins/UBC fiction prize shortlist announced

HarperCollins Canada, the Cooke Agency, and the University of British Columbia have announced the shortlist of the annual HarperCollins Publishers/UBC Prize for Best New Fiction: Between the Wind and Us by Iranian-Canadian writer Nazanine Hozar, ... Read More »

September 28, 2015 | Filed under: Awards

Liz Worth on Warhol as inspiration and writing through grief

By Q&Q Staff

It feels strange to be talking about the creative process behind a book I never intended to write. No Work Finished Here: Rewriting Andy Warhol started as a personal experiment, a practice run at poetry. ... Read More »

September 25, 2015 | Filed under: Authors

Avie Bennett named Harbourfront Festival Prize winner

By Becky Robertson

The International Festival of Authors has named businessman, publisher, and philanthropist Avie Bennett the recipient of this year’s $10,000 Harbourfront Festival Prize for his contribution to Canadian publishing. Bennett purchased Toronto press McClelland & Stewart ... Read More »

September 24, 2015 | Filed under: Awards

2016 RBC Taylor Prize jurors announced

By Becky Robertson

The three jurors for next year’s RBC Taylor Prize for literary non-fiction have been revealed. Toronto TV broadcaster Susanne Boyce, University of British Columbia creative writing chair Steven Galloway, and University of Toronto Munk School ... Read More »

September 24, 2015 | Filed under: Awards

Journalists Jacquie McNish and Sean Silcoff shortlisted for 2015 Financial Times Business Book Award

By Becky Robertson

Losing the Signal: The Untold Story Behind the Extraordinary Rise and Spectacular Fall of BlackBerry (Flatiron Books/Macmillan) by Globe and Mail journalists Jacquie McNish Sean Silcoff, is one of six non-fiction books shortlisted for this ... Read More »

September 24, 2015 | Filed under: Awards

Book Links: the annotated Atwood; the secret library of Los Alamos; Moz fans are bored before they even begin

By Becky Robertson

Read Margaret Atwood’s annotation of her new novel, The Heart Goes Last (Literary Hub). Social media suggests Morrissey’s debut novel deserves an award – for worst sex scenes. (The Telegraph). U.S. Supreme Court justices prefer ... Read More »

September 24, 2015 | Filed under: Book links

2015 Alberta Book Publishing Awards winners announced

By Becky Robertson

The Alberta Book Publishing Awards, honouring the best titles produced by the province’s presses over the past year, were celebrated at a gala on Sept. 18 at Fort Edmonton Park. The 30th anniversary of the ... Read More »

September 23, 2015 | Filed under: Awards

Canada hosts IBBY Italia’s International exhibit of wordless picture books

By Becky Robertson

In response to the international refugee crisis that began last year, the Italian arm of the International Board on Books for Young People has launched a picture-book exhibit to support the first children’s library in ... Read More »

September 23, 2015 | Filed under: Book news

Lynn Thomson wins 2015 Edna Staebler Award

By Becky Robertson

Toronto bookseller and author Lynn Thomson has been named winner of the 2015 Edna Staebler Award for creative non-fiction for her debut title, Birding With Yeats. (House of Anansi Press). The memoir chronicles Thomson’s blooming ... Read More »

September 23, 2015 | Filed under: Awards

2015 Cundill Prize in historical literature shortlist announced

By Becky Robertson

Professor Hudson Meadwell, interim dean of McGill University’s faculty of arts, has announced the shortlist for the 2015 Cundill Prize in historical literature. The prize recognizes excellent titles of the genre published the year prior ... Read More »

September 23, 2015 | Filed under: Awards

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