The finalists for the 2024 Alberta Literary Awards were announced by The Writers’ Guild of Alberta in early April. The winners will be announced at the Alberta Literary Awards Gala on June 8, during the ... Read More »
April 25, 2024
Two new spoken word poetry prizes – the Lillian Allen Prize, for an established artist, and the Lillian Allen Emerging Artist Prize, for a poet who has been working professionally for fewer than five years ... Read More »
April 24, 2024
Art Bouman has joined Fernwood Publishing as the publicity and promotions manager. He draws on his experience ... Read More »
April 23, 2024
Over the course of two days in early April, more than 150 people gathered for the Ascenti Symposium on Artificial Intelligence and the Creative Arts at the Calgary Central Library. The unique conference, which included ... Read More »
April 17, 2024
Marla Krisko, currently director of trade sales at Scholastic Canada, will be promoted to the role of vice-president, trade, effective June 1, 2024, when Kathy Goncharenko (current VP, trade) retires. In her new role, Krisko ... Read More »
April 17, 2024
Three of the eight winners of this year’s Windham-Campbell Prizes are Canadian writers: m. nourbeSe philip, Christina Sharpe, and Jen Hadfield. The annual Windham-Campbell Prizes, administered by Yale University’s Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, ... Read More »
April 3, 2024
AI and Literacy at the Tsuut’ina Nation I am DerRic Starlight and I am from the Tsuut’ina Nation. My mother is from the Blood Tribe, the Kainai Nation, so I am half Dene and half ... Read More »
March 27, 2024
The biennial Kobzar Book Award has been awarded to Ghosts in a Photograph: A Chronicle by Myrna Kostash. The $25,000 prize, sponsored by the Ukrainian Canadian Foundation of Taras Shevchenko, recognizes outstanding contributions to Canadian ... Read More »
March 26, 2024
The titles shortlisted for the ninth annual New Brunswick Book Awards have been announced by the Writers' Federation of New Brunswick (WFNB). The finalists are: Mrs. Dunster’s Award for Fiction Valerie Sherrard, Standing on Neptune ... Read More »
March 20, 2024
Eurithe Purdy, Al Purdy's widow, has announced the creation of a major new Canadian literary prize to honour poets “who embody exceptional talent and a profound connection to the Canadian spirit, a spirit that Purdy ... Read More »
March 20, 2024
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