Hundreds of guests filled Toronto's Koerner Hall on June 3 and 4 for the 2015 Griffin Poetry Prize readings ... Read More »
June 9, 2015 | Filed under: Awards
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After a decade-long run, Vancouver's Robson Reading Series will be shutting down in March. According to a statement on its website, the series will be concluding in light of the closure of both its host ... Read More »
February 5, 2013 | Filed under: Book news
Canzine, the country's largest festival dedicated to zines and independent culture, happens this Sunday in Toronto (the Vancouver edition is scheduled for Nov. 17). Following the success of last year's event, writer Jason Spencer spoke ... Read More »
October 19, 2012 | Filed under: Events
House of Anansi Press president and publisher Sarah MacLachlan has announced several changes to its editorial department. Melanie Little, who joined the firm two years ago as senior editor of Canadian fiction, is stepping down ... Read More »
May 25, 2012 | Filed under: Book news
Margaret Atwood and Graeme Gibson met with the editorial board at the Windsor Star on Thursday to talk ferries, farming, and living anonymously on Pelee Island. The couple stopped in at the newspaper's offices on ... Read More »
May 11, 2012 | Filed under: Authors
We've given a fair bit of space in Q&Q to conversations about literary criticism, but we've heard relatively little about what it means to be a critic of comics. Considering how significant graphic novels have ... Read More »
November 11, 2011 | Filed under: Book news
In a ceremony Friday morning, Governor General David Johnston bestowed the honour of Officer of the Order of Canada on francophone poet, novelist, and essayist Hélène Dorion. In a press release issued by the Governor ... Read More »
May 27, 2011 | Filed under: Book news
Canadian literary benefactor Scott Griffin is taking his passion for poetry “ in particular, the live recitation of poetry “ into schools across Canada with a new bilingual recitation contest that will award $10,000 to ... Read More »
In the Sept. 12 edition of the Financial Times, British critic and novelist Victoria Glendinning, who sits on this year's Scotiabank Giller Prize jury (which announced its longlist yesterday), generously shared her thoughts on Canadian literature. Following ... Read More »
September 22, 2009 | Filed under: Book news
Last week, National Post columnist Barbara Kay stirred up some controversy when she trashed Lisa Moore's novel February for being both unmanly and unreadable “ a symptom of what Kay describes as an overly feminized, ... Read More »
September 17, 2009 | Filed under: Book news
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