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Souvankham Thammavongsa doesn’t feel entirely comfortable working in the novel form. Although she wrote the first draft of ...
The Victoria Book Prize Society has announced the shortlist for the inaugural DC Reid Poetry Book Prize. The $5,000 prize is ...
The Ottawa Book Awards have announced three shortlists for the 2025 awards. The annual awards, granted in three categories, honour literary excellence in French and English books by Ottawa writers in ...
Under a letter-writing campaign launched by the OBPO this month, more than 1,600 emails have been sent to Ontario Premier Doug Ford, Minister of Education Paul Calandra and other government ...
Five books have been shortlisted for the 2024 Atwood Gibson Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize. This year, the Writers’ Trust has announced that the purse for the annual prize will rise to $70,000, with ...
Nalo Hopkinson has won the $3,000 2025 Sunburst Award for Canadian Literature of the Fantastic — making her a three-time ...
"Things in the world at large feel pretty scary and upsetting these days. We felt that creating an inviting and joyful ...
One strand of fiction was important to me: younger writers from Quebec. Perhaps I was overly influenced by my two years at M&S viewing, even if from a distance, Quebec’s metaphorical coming of age.
The longlist for the 2025 Giller Prize has been announced, and the 14-book list of titles vying for the annual $100,000 prize this year includes a mix of works from veteran and debut authors and ...
The proposed $1.5 billion settlement would have seen authors or publishers receive $3,000 for each of an estimated 500,000 books.
Omar El Akkad and Miriam Toews are among the five writers shortlisted for the 2025 Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction.
Days after the Alberta government paused a controversial ministerial order that would have affected the books school libraries were able to make available to students this fall, Education Minister ...