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Amazon.ca First Novel Award shortlist announced

Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize finalist Krista Bridge and prolific non-fiction author and translator Wayne Grady are among the nominees for the 2013 Amazon.ca First Novel Award, announced this morning. Selected by Q&Q editor Stuart Woods, ... Read More »

March 5, 2014 | Filed under: Awards

Q&A: Priscila Uppal on writing her first play

By Sue Carter

In her 2013 memoir Projection: Encounters with My Runaway Mother (Dundurn Press), Toronto poet Priscila Uppal shares painful details about reuniting with her film-obsessed mother, who abandoned the family 20 years earlier. The book was ... Read More »

March 4, 2014 | Filed under: Authors

Lisa Moore nominated for Winterset Award

By Sue Carter

Two authors and a poet have been nominated for this year's BMO Winterset Award, which celebrates excellence in Newfoundland writing. The nominees are: Lisa Moore, for her novel Caught (House of Anansi Press); Paul Bowdring, ... Read More »

March 4, 2014 | Filed under: Awards

Photos: Freedom to Read Week

By Julie Baldassi

From Halifax to Gabriola Island, more than 60 Freedom to Read Week events took place across Canada last week. The annual event encourages Canadians to reaffirm their commitment to intellectual freedom and consider the battles ... Read More »

March 4, 2014 | Filed under: Book news

Lena Dunham to pen Archie comics, what big data could do for book publishers, and more

By Emma Renda

Lena Dunham to write Archie Comic mini-series Is big data analysis necessary for traditional publishers? Hilary Clinton to deliver keynote at Association ... Read More »

March 4, 2014 | Filed under: Book links

Johnny Rotten writes memoir, S&S launches “book discovery” website, and more

By Sue Carter

John Lydon's memoir sold in "hotly contested auction" Simon & Schuster launches publisher-agnostic website dedicated to book discovery Philip Roth on his life as a writer Penguin threatens to take author to court over satirical ... Read More »

March 3, 2014 | Filed under: Book links

U of T library acquires world’s largest collection of Allen Ginsberg photographic prints

By Sue Carter

Allen Ginsberg fans can get a littler closer to the late poet, thanks in part to discount retailer Dollarama. The University of Toronto's Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library has acquired the world's largest collection of ... Read More »

February 28, 2014 | Filed under: Book news

Jeremy Stewart wins Robert Kroetsch Award

By Sue Carter

British Columbia poet Jeremy Stewart has won this year's Robert Kroetsch Award for Innovative Poetry for his manuscript Hidden City. He receives a contract with Invisible Publishing's Snare imprint and a $500 advance. In a ... Read More »

February 28, 2014 | Filed under: Awards

U.S. college has funding cut for teaching Fun Home, Oscar-nominated short-story adaptations, and more

By Emma Renda

South Carolina college sees funding cut for teaching Alison Bechdel's Fun Home Alice Munro's The Bear Came Over the Mountain among four other Oscar-nominated short-story adaptations New Orleans storytelling project preserves city's history before and after ... Read More »

February 28, 2014 | Filed under: Book news

Anansi, Coach House, and others team up for Publidash on Twitter

By Steven W. Beattie

Critics of CanLit and Canadian publishing have occasionally suggested that there is an element of balderdash to the business. A group of independent publishers has decided to literalize that critique by engaging in a game ... Read More »

February 27, 2014 | Filed under: Digital publishing and technology

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