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Canadian literary event roundup: April 20-26

Fan Expo Vancouver celebrates science fiction with Spider Robinson, D.D. Brant, A.M. Dellamonica, and Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Vancouver Convention Centre (April 21-22, check website for times) Blue Metropolis Festival offers readings, panel discussions, master classes, literary ... Read More »

April 20, 2012 | Filed under: Events

Book links roundup: Daniel Karasick wins CBC short story contest, Invisible Publishing prevails, and more

By Shannon Webb-Campbell

Daniel Karasik wins CBC short story prize, which includes $6,000, publication in enRoute magazine, and a two-week residency at the Banff Centre Invisible Publishing keeps on truckin' Prisons, cruise ships, safaris, scientific research stations, and ... Read More »

March 26, 2012 | Filed under: Book links

Quillcast episode four: Clark Blaise and The Meagre Tarmac

By Sue Carter

Quillcast is a podcast series from Quill & Quire featuring behind-the-scenes conversations with authors and publishing insiders. In this episode, recorded during Toronto's International Festival of Authors in October, Catherine Bush interviews Clark Blaise about ... Read More »

December 12, 2011 | Filed under: Awards, Book news, Quillcast

Anne Giardini is the boss

By Nathan Whitlock

Though novelists who are also doctors (Chekhov, Maugham, Vincent Lam) get the most attention, there have been a few creative writers who have occupied lofty positions in the business world, too. Criminally underrated novelist Henry ... Read More »

May 20, 2009 | Filed under: Authors

Montreal resident picks up Man Asian prize

By Stuart Woods

The winner of the second annual Man Asian Literary Prize has a Canadian connection “ the 31-year-old Filipino author lives in Montreal, where he works as a copy-editor at The Gazette. Miguel Syjuco, who received ... Read More »

November 14, 2008 | Filed under: Awards

David Sedaris: survivor

By Scott MacDonald

A new collection of David Sedaris essays “ entitled When You Are Engulfed in Flames “ comes out next week, and Entertainment Weekly has used the opportunity to check in with the humorist and to ... Read More »

May 30, 2008 | Filed under: Authors

A wondrous news brief from the NBCC

By Stuart Woods

The National Book Critics Circle handed out its annual book awards on Thursday, and among those honoured was Junot Diaz for his debut novel, The Brief, Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao “ a tragicomic family ... Read More »

March 7, 2008 | Filed under: Awards, Industry news

High school student expelled for short story

By Nathan Whitlock

From The Globe and Mail: A 17-year-old student has been expelled from his Brampton, Ont., high school for a fictional essay he submitted in a creative writing class about a disgruntled student who murders one ... Read More »

February 4, 2008 | Filed under: Industry news

Writers strike = kids’ book boom?

By Scott MacDonald

From United Press International: Several people sidelined by the Hollywood writers strike said they are penning children's tales to pass the time while they wait to go back to work. "It's kind of a nice ... Read More »

January 11, 2008 | Filed under: Book news

Martin Amis throws vinegar in old wound, opens new one

By Stuart Woods

The latest salvos in the Amis/Eagleton polemic come from the increasingly rancorous novelist himself, who penned an earnest rebuttal in Saturday's Guardian “ "No, I am not a racist," pleads the headline “ and then ... Read More »

December 4, 2007 | Filed under: Book news

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