by Attila Berki

Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction 2023 shortlist announced

Two finalists have been named for the $10,000 Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction for 2023 by Wilfrid Laurier University, which administers the prize. The 2023 finalists are authors Cody Caetano for Half-Bads in White ... Read More »

February 2, 2024

Excerpt from Toward an Anti-Racist Poetics

By Attila Berki

When I first began to think of myself as a writer, in my teenage years, I did what many artists of colour have done: I mimicked the dominant forms I encountered in school. This is ... Read More »

January 31, 2024

Tanya Tagaq shortlisted for Gordon Burn Prize

By Attila Berki

Tanya Tagaq's novel Split Tooth has been shortlisted for the 2023–24 Gordon Burn Prize. The U.K.-based Gordon Burn Prize recognizes innovative and “forward-thinking” literature that pushes boundaries in content, style, or genre, and engages ... Read More »

January 29, 2024

Publishers, editors, and writers named to the Order of Canada

By Attila Berki

Governor General Mary Simon announced the 2023 appointments to the Order of Canada on December 28, 2023. Several publishers, editors, and writers were among the 78 individuals honoured. The Order of Canada recognizes people across ... Read More »

January 4, 2024

Personnel change: Ontario Arts Council

By Attila Berki

Sue Carter has joined the Ontario Arts Council as literature officer. She was previously deputy editor at ... Read More »

December 20, 2023

Independent booksellers’ top-selling Canadian titles of 2023 so far

By Attila Berki

In the lead up to the holiday season, Kate Beaton's 2022 Canada Reads–winning graphic memoir Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands (Drawn & Quarterly Publications) sits as the top selling Canadian-authored and Canadian-published title ... Read More »

November 29, 2023

Valley of the Birdtail wins two QWF Literary Awards

By Attila Berki

The Quebec Writers’ Federation announced the winners of the 25th QWF Literary Awards at the QWF Literary Awards Gala in Montreal on Nov. 13. Andrew Stobo Sniderman and Douglas Sanderson’s Valley of the Birdtail: An ... Read More »

November 15, 2023

Excerpt from The Compassionate Imagination: How the Arts Are Central to a Functioning Democracy

By Attila Berki

Article 27 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights states that “everyone has the right freely to participate in the cultural life of the community, to enjoy the arts and to share in scientific advancement ... Read More »

November 8, 2023

B.C. authors shortlisted for Pacific Northwest Book Awards

By Attila Berki

Naomi Klein, Jules Sherred, and TD Canadian Children’s Literature Award—winner Kim Spencer have been shortlisted for the Pacific Northwest Book Awards. The prizes are administered by the The Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association. The PNBA is ... Read More »

November 7, 2023

D.M. Bradford wins John Glassco Translation Prize

By Attila Berki

Montreal-based poet and translator D.M. Bradford was named the winner of the 2023 John Glassco Translation Prize at an event in Montreal on Oct. 28. D.M. Bradford won the prize for House Within a House ... Read More »

November 7, 2023

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Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction 2023 shortlist announced

Excerpt from Toward an Anti-Racist Poetics

Tanya Tagaq shortlisted for Gordon Burn Prize

Publishers, editors, and writers named to the Order of Canada

Personnel change: Ontario Arts Council

Independent booksellers’ top-selling Canadian titles of 2023 so far

Valley of the Birdtail wins two QWF Literary Awards

Excerpt from The Compassionate Imagination: How the Arts Are Central to a Functioning Democracy

B.C. authors shortlisted for Pacific Northwest Book Awards

D.M. Bradford wins John Glassco Translation Prize

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