A few notable titles
Q&As
Comics and graphica
The publishing business
Canadian kidlit
The towns of CanLit
Historically speaking
CanLit in the world
Q&Q through the decades

80 years of Q&Q: talking with author and Broken Pencil founder Hal Niedzviecki

Broken Pencil, Canada’s only journal of zine culture and independent arts, turns 20 this year. Founder Hal Niedzviecki is now a culture critic and fiction writer who has published 10 books since the magazine’s inception. ... Read More »

March 18, 2015 | Filed under: Book culture, People

80 years of Q&Q: talking with Kobo president and CCO Michael Tamblyn

By Sue Carter

Twenty years ago, few outside the industry could have predicted that the chaotic culture of technology start-ups would meld with the seasons-driven structure of traditional book publishing and retail. As president and chief content officer ... Read More »

March 18, 2015 | Filed under: Book culture, People

80 years of Q&Q: talking with Theytus Books editor-in-chief Paul Seesequasis

By Q&Q Staff

Launched in 1981, Theytus Books – Canada’s first indigenous-owned publishing house – has played a pivotal role in developing the country’s canon of aboriginal literature. Theytus editor-in-chief Paul Seesequasis gives some insight into the press. ... Read More »

March 18, 2015 | Filed under: Book culture, People

80 years of Q&Q: talking with The Great Black North editors Valerie Mason-John and Kevan Anthony Cameron

By Safa Jinje

In 2013, Frontenac House published The Great Black North, the first anthology to survey contemporary African Canadian poetry in all its forms. Edited by author Valerie Mason-John and spoken-word poet Kevan Anthony Cameron, the collection ... Read More »

March 18, 2015 | Filed under: Book culture

80 years of Q&Q: CanLit goes out into the world

By Q&Q Staff

Five Canadian writers recognized with international awards: 1. Margaret Atwood: Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts (1981); Los Angeles Times Fiction Award for The Handmaid’s Tale (1986); Government of France’s Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Arts et ... Read More »

March 18, 2015 | Filed under: Book culture, People

80 years of Q&Q: a look back at Canadian children’s publishing

By Q&Q Staff

Canada gives birth to a kidlit industry Fuelled in part by government grants – but mostly by idealism, nationalism, feminism, youthful optimism, and an urgent sense that children and children’s books mattered – the 1970s ... Read More »

March 18, 2015 | Filed under: Book culture, Children's publishing, People

80 years of Q&Q: moments in Canadian poetry

By Q&Q Staff

bpNichol and bill bissett sound off One arguably incongruous fact about Canadian sound poet bpNichol is that in the 1980s he wrote for Fraggle Rock, the Jim Henson–produced children’s television program. Nichol is more famous ... Read More »

March 13, 2015 | Filed under: Book culture

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Quill and Quire

A few notable titles

Q&As

Comics and graphica

The publishing business

Canadian kidlit

The towns of CanLit

Historically speaking

CanLit in the world

Q&Q through the decades

80 years of Q&Q: talking with author and Broken Pencil founder Hal Niedzviecki

80 years of Q&Q: talking with Kobo president and CCO Michael Tamblyn

80 years of Q&Q: talking with Theytus Books editor-in-chief Paul Seesequasis

80 years of Q&Q: talking with The Great Black North editors Valerie Mason-John and Kevan Anthony Cameron

80 years of Q&Q: CanLit goes out into the world

80 years of Q&Q: a look back at Canadian children’s publishing

80 years of Q&Q: moments in Canadian poetry

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