Search Results by tag: Newfoundland

This weekend in Canadian literary events: July 27-29

The season of literary festivals and readings in the park is well underway, and it's not slowing down this weekend. Here are just a few of the events featured on Q&Q's calendar. This is the ... Read More »

July 27, 2012 | Filed under: Events

Classic Newfoundland novel Hold Fast to become a film

By Katie Gowrie

The classic 1978 Newfoundland coming-of-age novel Hold Fast, written by Kevin Major, will make the jump from the page to screen next year in a film written by Rosemary House and directed by Justin Simms. ... Read More »

June 25, 2012 | Filed under: Book news

Q&A: poet and Book Fridge founder Kerri Cull

By Shannon Webb-Campbell

Labrador writer Kerri Cull, founder of the literary blog The Book Fridge, recently released her debut collection of poems, Soak (Breakwater Books). Quillblog caught up with Cull before her reading tonight at the White Horse Lounge ... Read More »

April 26, 2012 | Filed under: Authors

Jay Macpherson: 1931-2012

By Steven W. Beattie

One of Canada's finest “ and arguably most underappreciated “ poets has died. Jay Macpherson, a professor at the University of Toronto who won the Governor General's Literary Award for her 1957 collection, The Boatman, ... Read More »

March 26, 2012 | Filed under: Book news

Book biz round-up: the latest links

By Stuart Woods

Sundry links from around the Web: Toronto novelist Stephen Marche takes on Snooki in the National Post Canadian Manda Group, the Canadian sales agent for Guinness World Records, sets a new record for duct-taping a ... Read More »

January 10, 2011 | Filed under: Book news

Event Photos: Ken Harvey's award win, Emily Schultz's launch, and Hot Hot Hot!

By Leigh Anne Williams

Kenneth J. Harvey's novel Inside won the 2006 Winterset Award at Government House in St. John's, Newfoundland on March 29. The International Board on Books for Young People's biennial fundraiser was held at Toronto's Lula ... Read More »

March 30, 2007 | Filed under: Authors, Awards, Events

Prev 12

Quill and Quire