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Newfoundland and Labrador Book Award shortlist announced

The Newfoundland and Labrador Book Awards shortlist has been announced. During even years the awards honour fiction and children's/young adult fiction; during odd years, poetry and non-fiction. Only residents of Newfoundland and Labrador are eligible ... Read More »

April 15, 2015 | Filed under: Awards

80 years of Q&Q: getting personal with CanLit personalities

By Q&Q Staff

In 1956, Timothy Findley published his debut story in the Tamarack Review, motivated by some friendly generational griping from his friend, actress Ruth Gordon (Harold and Maude). During a 1981 interview with Canadian Literature, Findley ... Read More »

April 15, 2015 | Filed under: Book culture, People

80 years of Q&Q: CanLit gets down to business

By Q&Q Staff

Authors get organized Decades before online petitions and social media became favoured activist tactics, Canadian authors gathered over drinks to discuss the issues of the day. Grassroots organizations emerged out of late nights at the ... Read More »

April 15, 2015 | Filed under: Book culture, Bookselling, Digital publishing and technology

HarperCollins reaches deal with Amazon, staves off “doomsday scenario”

By Steven W. Beattie

Amazon, the world’s largest online book retailer, and HarperCollins, the second-largest of the so-called “big five” publishers in the U.S., have entered into a multiyear contract, avoiding a protracted battle over discounts and pricing. Bloomberg ... Read More »

April 15, 2015 | Filed under: Bookselling

Poetry Month Q&A: Sue Goyette on approaches to healing and her new poem, The Brief Reincarnation of a Girl

By Sarah Kester

Massachusetts, 2006. A four-year-old girl died from an overdose of drugs used to treat ADHD and bipolar disorder. Her parents were convicted of her murder. Sue Goyette's new poetry collection, The Brief Reincarnation of a Girl (Gaspereau ... Read More »

April 15, 2015 | Filed under: Authors

80 years of Q&Q: name the fictional towns of CanLit

By Q&Q Staff

Can you name these five fictional CanLit towns? Click on the images for answers. Illustrations by Scott ... Read More »

April 15, 2015 | Filed under: Book culture

Courtney Summers’ #ToTheGirls trends on Twitter

By Becky Robertson

Ontario YA author Courtney Summers has taken over social media yet again after having her latest title, All the Rage, picked up by Tumblr's reblog book club earlier this month. The author, who is known ... Read More »

April 15, 2015 | Filed under: Authors, Book news

David Nicholls says buying books online is shoplifting, Stanford uses books to map Victorian London, and more

By Becky Robertson

U.K. author David Nicholls calls buying books online "a genteel form of shoplifting" Stanford Literary Lab uses books to map emotional geography of Victorian London The "dark reading" data that sales figures may miss Princess ... Read More »

April 15, 2015 | Filed under: Book links

Top book designers re-imagine classic CanLit book covers

By Sue Carter

Solomon Gursky was here This scene, of Solomon with his grandfather Ephraim, has stuck with me for years: “Ephraim slid a long knife free of their sled and planted it upright in the snow. He ... Read More »

April 14, 2015 | Filed under: Book culture

80 years of Q&Q: comics & graphica, from Captain Canuck to D&Q

By Q&Q Staff

Canadian comics get a second chance The mid- to late 1970s brought a wave of nostalgia to comics, and with it, Canada’s Silver Age. These comics, consistent in their production values with most mainstream (i.e., ... Read More »

April 14, 2015 | Filed under: Authors, Book culture, People, Writing life

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