Naomi Klein wins Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize

Naomi Klein's environmental manifesto This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate (Knopf Canada) has won the $60,000 Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Non-fiction. The award was presented at a gala on Tuesday night held ... Read More »

October 15, 2014 | Filed under: Awards

Richard Flanagan wins 2014 Man Booker Prize

By Becky Robertson

Australian writer Richard Flanagan is the winner of this year's Man Booker Prize for Fiction for The Narrow Road to the Deep North (Knopf), announced today at aceremony in London. He was chosen over fellow shortlisted authors ... Read More »

October 14, 2014 | Filed under: Awards

ImagineNative celebrates its 15th anniversary with new literary programming

By Julie Baldassi

Next week, Toronto’s ImagineNative Film + Media Arts Festival, the largest indigenous media arts festival in the world, launches its 15th annual event. This year's festival, which runs Oct. 22–26, introduces new literary programming – including ... Read More »

October 14, 2014 | Filed under: Events

Musicologist Susan Fast on dissecting Michael Jackson’s Dangerous

By Sue Carter

Hamilton writer Susan Fast is the author of Michael Jackson: Dangerous, the 100th volume of Bloomsbury's hip pocket-book music series, 33 1/3. A musicologist and cultural studies professor at McMaster University, Fast is the first ... Read More »

October 14, 2014 | Filed under: Book culture

Adobe addresses spying allegations, the best in queer lit, and more

By Julie Baldassi

Adobe addresses allegations it has been gathering data from ebook readers The best characters in queer coming-of-age novels Canadaland: Kate Beaton on finding success self-publishing historical comics Adelle Waldman on failing in New York Travelling ... Read More »

October 14, 2014 | Filed under: Book links

Longtime food writer Julian Armstrong documents Quebec’s evolving cuisine

By Sue Carter

For more than 40 years, longtime Montreal Gazette food writer and former editor Julian Armstrong has travelled across her adopted home of Quebec, interviewing farmers, producers, and chefs while documenting the regional cuisine. The 82-year-old ... Read More »

October 10, 2014 | Filed under: Book news

bpNichol Chapbook Award doubles purse, announces 2014 shortlist

By Julie Baldassi

This year, the bpNichol Chapbook Award will double its purse from $2,000 to $4,000, thanks to the contribution of an anonymous donor, with publishers to receive $500 (donated by Brian Dedora and Jim Smith). The ... Read More »

October 10, 2014 | Filed under: Awards

Douglas Coupland on the future, 3D printing, and the irrelevancy of human beings

By Steven W. Beattie

We’re about 20 minutes into our chat when Douglas Coupland calls me stupid. Well, alright, not me personally, but the type of individual who might harbour an attitude I’d just tentatively expressed. The subject we’re ... Read More »

October 10, 2014 | Filed under: Authors

Learning how to write Giller-worthy fiction with Heather O’Neill

By Tara-Michelle Ziniuk

The idea behind Summer Literary Seminars is to take emerging writers out of their regular environments and immerse them in the culture of beautiful settings in places like Kenya and Lithuania. The reality, as I ... Read More »

October 9, 2014 | Filed under: Book culture

First look at the cover for K. L. Armstrong and M. A. Marr’s Thor’s Serpents

By Sue Carter

Fans of Kelley Armstrong and Melissa Marr's middle-grade Blackwell Pages trilogy may have to wait until May 2015 for the final title, Thor's Serpents, but until then, here's an exclusive look at its cover. Marr, ... Read More »

October 9, 2014 | Filed under: Children's publishing

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