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Alcuin Society announces 2015 book design award winners

Vancouver non-profit the Alcuin Society has revealed the winners and runners-up of its 33rd annual Canadian book-design awards. A judging panel comprising Simon Fraser University senior publishing lecturer and Stanton Atkins & Dosil publishing ... Read More »

April 21, 2015 | Filed under: Awards

Poetry Month Q&A: Bren Simmers on writing from and to her neighbourhood

By Ariel Gordon

Bren Simmers’ second collection, Hastings-Sunrise (Nightwood Editions), is a long poem that spans a year of living in the East Vancouver residential neighbourhood, one of the city's oldest. Though she is now based in Squamish, ... Read More »

April 21, 2015 | Filed under: Authors

Anthony Doerr and Elizabeth Kolbert win Pulitzer Prizes, judging social-media book fans, and more

By Becky Robertson

Anthony Doerr and Elizabeth Kolbert win Pulitzer Prizes for All the Light We Cannot See and The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History, respectively Are book fans from social media "real" fans? Toni Morrison on race ... Read More »

April 21, 2015 | Filed under: Book links

Pierre Pratt wins 2015 IBBY Canada Elizabeth Mrazik-Cleaver Picture Book Award

By Becky Robertson

Prolific Montreal author-illustrator Pierre Pratt has been named the winner of IBBY Canada's Elizabeth Mrazik-Cleaver Canadian Picture Book Award for his art in Stop, Thief! (Kids Can Press), written by Heather Tekavec. The $1,000 prize ... Read More »

April 20, 2015 | Filed under: Awards

Library of Congress launches recorded poetry archive, Murakami and Adichie among Time’s 100 influential people, and more

By Becky Robertson

U.S. Library of Congress releases Archive of Recorded Poetry and Literature Authors Haruki Murakami and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie make Time’s list of 100 most influential people Twitter Fiction Festival to host live companion event in ... Read More »

April 20, 2015 | Filed under: Book links

The Devil You Know set to be adapted for television

By Sarah Kester

New Metric Media has announced it has acquired worldwide media rights for Elisabeth de Mariaffi's debut novel, The Devil You Know (HarperCollins Canada/Patrick Crean Editions). The novel, set in the early 1990s, follows rookie reporter Evie Jones, who ... Read More »

April 17, 2015 | Filed under: Deals

Ebook prices rise, 150,000 people expected at L.A. festival, and more

By Sarah Kester

About 150,000 people are expected to attend the Los Angeles book festival, which starts tomorrow Neil Gaiman, Kenneth Oppel among recipients of the 2015 Indies Choice Book Awards and the E.B. White Read-aloud Awards A ... Read More »

April 17, 2015 | Filed under: Book links

Alfred Hermida wins National Business Book Award

By Sarah Kester

Alfred Hermida, an associate professor at UBC's Graduate School of Journalism, is the 2015 winner of the National Business Book Award for Tell Everyone: Why we Share and Why it Matters (Doubleday Canada). Tell Everyone explores how our ... Read More »

April 16, 2015 | Filed under: Awards

Q&A: Kids Can Press senior editor and author Stacey Roderick

By Dory Cerny

Ever wondered what it’s like to (temporarily) hang up your editor’s hat and write your own book? To have it published by your employer? We asked Kids Can Press senior editor Stacey Roderick, whose first ... Read More »

April 16, 2015 | Filed under: Authors, Children's publishing

Amy Poehler and Nelson Mandela top audiobook list, Amazon is hoping to get drones approved, and more

By Sarah Kester

Amy Poehler and Nelson Mandela are among the Audio Publishers Association's top five audiobooks of the year. If Amazon's new drones are approved they could make deliveries faster and cheaper. A library in Topeka parodied Taylor ... Read More »

April 16, 2015 | Filed under: Book links

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