by Attila Berki

Brett Popplewell wins 2024 Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction

Brett Popplewell has won the 2024 Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction for his book Outsider: An Old Man, a Mountain, and the Search for a Hidden Past (Collins/HarperCollins). Popplewell was named the winner of ... Read More »

November 6, 2024

Christopher DiRaddo wins 2024 QWF Judy Mappin Community Award

By Attila Berki

The Quebec Writers’ Federation (QWF) has announced Christopher DiRaddo as the winner of the 2024 Judy Mappin Community Award. The Judy Mappin Community Award is presented annually to a member of the literary community for ... Read More »

October 30, 2024

Henry Tsang wins City of Vancouver Book Award, Elee Kraljii Gardiner named Vancouver’s poet laureate

By Attila Berki

Mutidisciplinary artist Henry Tsang was named the winner of the 2024 City of Vancouver Book Award for his first book, White Riot: The 1907 Anti-Asian Riots in Vancouver (Arsenal Pulp Press) at the Vancouver Writers ... Read More »

October 30, 2024

Excerpt from Spark: Alice Kuipers on Writing for Kids & Young Adults

By Attila Berki

The world of books for children and young adults was nothing like it is now, but I was deeply grateful for authors who were opening doors I would later travel through as a writer. Books ... Read More »

October 23, 2024

2024 Taste Canada culinary writing awards announced

By Attila Berki

The Taste Canada annual awards for culinary writing in both English and French were announced 0n Oct. 21. Awards gold and silver winners in five English- and five French-language categories for cookbooks. Shortlists were announced ... Read More »

October 22, 2024

Jordan Abel and Taryn Eyton winners at Banff Mountain Book Competition

By Attila Berki

The Banff Mountain Book Competition has announced its category winners for 2024. Canadian authors garnered two of the eight awards. Jordan Abel won the prize for mountain fiction and poetry for Empty Spaces (McClelland & ... Read More »

October 21, 2024

Fundraising campaign underway to create Augur Press and new sci-fi-fantasy prize

By Attila Berki

Augur Literary Society is looking to expand its publishing operations and scope in the coming years. The Toronto-based group publishes two magazines: Augur, which publishes poetry and short fiction focusing on “the speculative, surreal, or ... Read More »

October 16, 2024

QWF Literary Awards 2024 shortlists announced

By Attila Berki

The Quebec Writers’ Federation has announced the finalists for the 2024 QWF Literary Awards. The QWF Literary Awards honour the best of English-language literature in Quebec. The winners in eight categories – poetry, fiction, non-fiction, ... Read More »

October 16, 2024

Personnel change: University of Alberta Press

By Attila Berki

Cathie Crooks has been named interim director and publisher at the University of Alberta Press. Currently the ... Read More »

October 16, 2024

Canadians among winners of 2024 High Plains Book Awards

By Attila Berki

Seven Canadian authors and four books are among winners of the 17th High Plains Book Awards, announced on October 5 at Montana State University, Billings, Montana. The Canadian winners are: Art & Photography: Prairie Interlace: ... Read More »

October 10, 2024

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Brett Popplewell wins 2024 Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction

Christopher DiRaddo wins 2024 QWF Judy Mappin Community Award

Henry Tsang wins City of Vancouver Book Award, Elee Kraljii Gardiner named Vancouver’s poet laureate

Excerpt from Spark: Alice Kuipers on Writing for Kids & Young Adults

2024 Taste Canada culinary writing awards announced

Jordan Abel and Taryn Eyton winners at Banff Mountain Book Competition

Fundraising campaign underway to create Augur Press and new sci-fi-fantasy prize

QWF Literary Awards 2024 shortlists announced

Personnel change: University of Alberta Press

Canadians among winners of 2024 High Plains Book Awards

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