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Cathy Marie Buchanan’s The Painted Girls to be adapted for TV

The CW Television Network is known for contemporary (and soapy) dramas like Gossip Girl and One Tree Hill. Now, the cable network is taking a step back in time with its new project, a period ... Read More »

November 21, 2013 | Filed under: Book culture

McAdam, Moore both among winners at Writers’ Trust awards

By Julie Baldassi

Colin McAdam has won the 2013 Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize for A Beautiful Truth (Hamish Hamilton Canada), which tells the parallel stories of a couple who adopt a chimpanzee named Looee and the primates at ... Read More »

November 21, 2013 | Filed under: Awards

B.C. National Award for Canadian Non-fiction longlist announced

By Julie Baldassi

The longlist has been announced for the 10th annual B.C. National Award for Canadian Non-fiction, worth $40,000. The jury, comprising The Globe and Mail books editor Jared Bland, journalist and author Daphne Bramham, and publishing veteran ... Read More »

November 20, 2013 | Filed under: Awards

Quebec Writers’ Federation presents 2013 literary awards

By Becky Robertson

The Quebec Writers' Federation's annual literary awards, recognizing the best English-language works published by Quebec writers, were presented at a gala in Montreal on Tuesday night. The evening also served to celebrate the 15th anniversary ... Read More »

November 20, 2013 | Filed under: Awards

Factual errors in Alex Ferguson memoir, classic authors who would win NaNoWriMo, and more

By Becky Robertson

Errors in Sir Alex Ferguson memoir symptomatic of editing standards in publishing Seven classic authors who would win National Novel Writing Month New York University panel considers future of the book Two U.S. bookstores on ... Read More »

November 20, 2013 | Filed under: Book links

“Selfie” is Oxford Dictionaries’ word of the year, English PEN Award winners announced, and more

By Becky Robertson

Oxford Dictionaries names "selfie" Word of the Year Writers in Translation Award for translation winners revealed Bloomberg News lays off 50 employees, including book review editor Junie B. Jones author Barbara Park dies at 66 ... Read More »

November 19, 2013

Two poets tie for the 2013 bpNichol Chapbook Award

By Julie Baldassi

Two winners tied for the 2013 bpNichol Chapbook Award, announced at Meet the Presses collective's Indie Literary Market in Toronto this weekend. The winners are: Sandra Allard for Naturally Speaking, published by Toronto's espresso/paperplates press; and ... Read More »

November 18, 2013 | Filed under: Awards

Authors launch online auction to aid Philippines typhoon victims

By Becky Robertson

A group of international authors has banded together to support victims of Typhoon Haiyan, which hit the Philippines on Nov. 8, with an online literary auction. All proceeds go to the British Red Cross's Typhoon ... Read More »

November 18, 2013 | Filed under: Book news

Photos: Inside The Writers’ Trust of Canada gala

By Sue Carter

More than 400 members of Toronto's cultural and business communities came together on Nov. 14 for The Writers' Trust of Canada's* black-tie gala, raising $220,000 toward the organization's programs and awards. Click on the thumbnails ... Read More »

November 18, 2013 | Filed under: Events

Kids Can Press partners with the Khaled Hosseini Foundation

By Julie Baldassi

Kids Can Press has partnered with the Khaled Hosseini Foundation to offer free curriculum for the press's fall middle-grade picture book, Razia's Ray of Hope: One Girl's Dream of an Education. Written by Elizabeth Suneby ... Read More »

November 18, 2013 | Filed under: Book news

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