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Five coast-to-coast Authors for Indies highlights

Across the country this Saturday, more than 600 writers will be hand-selling books at 120 independent bookstores during the inaugural Canadian Authors for Indies event. Retailers in both large city centres and small towns are ... Read More »

April 30, 2015 | Filed under: Book culture

The real Mr. Darcy revealed, Ellen DeGeneres and Netflix take on Dr. Seuss, and more

By Sarah Kester

Judy Blume is lobbying for more funding for New York Public Libraries Association of American Publishers says 2015 ebook sales are down Netflix teams up with Ellen DeGeneres to make a Green Eggs and Ham television show Junot ... Read More »

April 30, 2015 | Filed under: Book links

Q&A: author John Vaillant and filmmaker Sasha Snow on adapting each other’s work

By Lauren McKeon

When Governor General Literary Award–winning Vancouver author John Vaillant saw Sasha Snow’s documentary, Conflict Tiger, he knew that he had to transform it into a book. Vaillant didn’t expect that Snow would read his 2005 ... Read More »

April 29, 2015 | Filed under: Authors, Writing life

Poetry Month Q&A: K.I. Press on motherhood and her latest collection

By Ariel Gordon

Originally from rural Alberta, poet K.I. Press has lived in Toronto, Vancouver, Edmonton, and Ottawa. She’s now lived in Winnipeg for a decade, long enough, she says, that it “has slowed down the pace at ... Read More »

April 29, 2015 | Filed under: Authors, Writing life

Banff Centre to offer new writing residencies, Art Spiegelman speaks out about Russia’s Maus ban, and more

By Becky Robertson

The Banff Centre to offer new residencies in memoir, crime writing, and mountain and wilderness writing Art Spiegelman calls Russian bookstores' banning of Maus a “harbinger of a dangerous thing” Baltimore libraries remain open and bookstores ... Read More »

April 29, 2015 | Filed under: Book links

Graphic novel The Outside Circle aims to become a tool for aboriginal healing

By Alex Migdal

Racial prejudices continue to fester in Edmonton, home to Canada’s second-largest aboriginal population, and the setting for Patti LaBoucane-Benson and Kelly Mellings’ graphic novel The Outside Circle, published by House of Anansi Press. For the ... Read More »

April 28, 2015 | Filed under: Authors

Q&A: Kathy Kacer on her new play, collaborating with her son, and writing about the Holocaust

By Dory Cerny

Since the 1999 publication of her first novel for young readers, The Secret of Gabi’s Dresser (Second Story Press), Kathy Kacer has built a career on informing readers about the Holocaust in her children’s fiction ... Read More »

April 28, 2015 | Filed under: Authors, Children's publishing

Scholastic now publishing gender neutral books, reading to your children could help them eat better, and more

By Sarah Kester

Reading to children could make them less picky eaters Rare books belonging to the New York Public Library turn up in Long Island couple's estate Scholastic publishing "gender neutral" books in response to complaint from ... Read More »

April 28, 2015 | Filed under: Book links

Winners of the 2015 Manitoba Book Awards announced

By Sarah Kester

The Manitoba Writers' Guild and the Association of Manitoba Book Publishers announced the winners of the Manitoba Book Awards on Saturday. The event was held at the Ramada Marlborough Hotel in Winnipeg. The full list ... Read More »

April 27, 2015 | Filed under: Awards

Poetry Month Q&A: Pamela Mordecai on recording her canon

By Sarah Kester

On a recent trip to Newfoundland, Jamaican-Canadian writer Pamela Mordecai recorded 25 years worth of her poetry in a pilot project created by Memorial University English professor Stephanie McKenzie. The project took five days to ... Read More »

April 27, 2015 | Filed under: Authors

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Five coast-to-coast Authors for Indies highlights

The real Mr. Darcy revealed, Ellen DeGeneres and Netflix take on Dr. Seuss, and more

Q&A: author John Vaillant and filmmaker Sasha Snow on adapting each other’s work

Poetry Month Q&A: K.I. Press on motherhood and her latest collection

Banff Centre to offer new writing residencies, Art Spiegelman speaks out about Russia’s Maus ban, and more

Graphic novel The Outside Circle aims to become a tool for aboriginal healing

Q&A: Kathy Kacer on her new play, collaborating with her son, and writing about the Holocaust

Scholastic now publishing gender neutral books, reading to your children could help them eat better, and more

Winners of the 2015 Manitoba Book Awards announced

Poetry Month Q&A: Pamela Mordecai on recording her canon

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