The season of high-profile literary awards and author festivals is on its way, and there's no shortage of new releases from marquee names. In the July/August issue, Q&Q looks ahead at some of the fall's ... Read More »
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ECW Press, Theytus Books, and Breakwater Books are just some of the Canadian independent publishers honoured at the 2012 Independent Publisher Book Awards last week. Gold, silver, and bronze IPPY medals were handed out across ... Read More »
June 15, 2012 | Filed under: Awards
The Eden Mills Writers' Festival has revealed its guest list for 2012. The 24th Eden Mills Writers' Festival will take place on Sept. 16 and feature more than 50 Canadian authors. Among the writers who ... Read More »
June 1, 2012 | Filed under: Events
The winner of this year's First Nation Communities Read program is Janet Wilson's Shannen and the Dream for a School (Second Story Press), about the fight to get a new school for the Northern Ontario ... Read More »
May 23, 2012 | Filed under: Awards
Ontario's First Nation public librarians have announced the shortlist for the annual First Nation Communities Read contest. Bear Walker: Adventures of Rabbit and Bear Paws, Chad Solomon and Christopher Meyer (Little Spirit Bear Productions) Call ... Read More »
May 1, 2012 | Filed under: Book news
The Association for Canadian and Quebec Literatures has announced the shortlists for the 2011 Gabrielle Roy Prize, honouring the best works of Canadian literary criticism published in English and French. The finalists were selected by ... Read More »
April 18, 2012 | Filed under: Awards
Three Canadian authors were recognized by the American Indian Youth Literature Awards, a biannual prize that honours culture and identity storytelling by aboriginal Northern American authors. Alberta writer Jacqueline Guest won for her two YA ... Read More »
March 19, 2012 | Filed under: Awards
The shortlists for the 2011 Saskatchewan Book Awards were announced this morning at a press conference held at the University of Regina. According to organizers, this year's 61 nominees, selected from 233 submissions, represent a ... Read More »
February 17, 2012 | Filed under: Awards
A team at the University of Alberta has traced the province's first book publishing enterprise to a Catholic missionary and polyglot. In The Beginning of Print Culture in Athabasca Country (University of Alberta Press, 2010), ... Read More »
February 6, 2012 | Filed under: Book news, Industry news
Theytus Books, one of Canada's oldest aboriginal publishers, celebrated its 30th anniversary last Thursday. The full-day festivities comprised workshops about creativity and the land, including a poetry-chapbook-writing session and reading hosted by Jeanette Armstrong, at ... Read More »
November 15, 2011 | Filed under: Book news, Digital publishing and technology, Events
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