by Becky Robertson

Allan Stratton, Frieda Wishinsky make 2016 IODE Violet Downey Book Award shortlist

National women's charitable organization IODE has released the shortlist for its annual Violet Downey Book Award, honouring English-language children's books of 500 words or more published in Canada over the past year: Karen Bass; Uncertain ... Read More »

March 31, 2016 | Filed under: Awards, Book news, Children's publishing

Chris Chambers wins IFOA’s Battle of the Bards

By Becky Robertson

Chris Chambers was chosen from among a group of 20 emerging and established poets as winner of the 8th annual Battle of the Bards, an event sponsored by the International Festival of Authors and alternate ... Read More »

March 31, 2016 | Filed under: Awards

Book Links: Growing number of women in book media; Imre Kertesz dies; superheros aren’t just for adults anymore

By Becky Robertson

2015 VIDA count reveals growing number of women in U.S. literary arts. (Flavorwire) Bleaker days for women: a historical VIDA count. (Literary Hub) DC, Random House partner on young adult superhero novels. (Comics Alliance) Nobel-winning ... Read More »

March 31, 2016 | Filed under: Book links

Daily Deals: Scholastic picks up Harry Potter and Fantastic Beasts movie tie-in titles; S&S acquires new Tyrell Johnson novel

By Becky Robertson

Scholastic, in partnership with Warner Bros. Consumer Products, has acquired world all-language rights to children's titles based on the pre-existing Harry Potter and forthcoming Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them movie franchises, adapted from ... Read More »

March 30, 2016

Book Links: Margaret MacMillan launches video series; Trump for kids; a plagiarism mystery

By Becky Robertson

Author-historian Margaret MacMillan launches video series. (CBC Books) A look at the University of British Columbia's recently acquired medieval manuscripts. (Publishing Perspectives) Irish author Eilis O'Hanlon discovers her 13-year-old mystery novel was plagiarized – and ... Read More »

March 30, 2016 | Filed under: Book links, Book news

Poem in Your Pocket Day comes to Canada

By Becky Robertson

Poem in Your Pocket Day, an event that encourages readers to carry a specially selected poem around with them and share it with others, will be extended to Canada for the first time ever on ... Read More »

March 29, 2016 | Filed under: Book news

York professor Craig Heron recognized by International Labor History Association

By Becky Robertson

York University history professor Craig Heron's 2015 title, Lunch-Basket Lives: Remaking the Workers' City (Between the Lines Books), has been named Book of the Year by the International Labor History Association. The book, which focuses on the ... Read More »

March 29, 2016 | Filed under: Awards

Dean Jobb, Sarah Mian among Atlantic Book Awards finalists

By Becky Robertson

The Atlantic Book Awards Society has released it 2016 shortlists. Following the Atlantic Book Awards and Festival April 20–27 – with literary events in all four Atlantic provinces – prizewinners will be announced in New ... Read More »

March 29, 2016 | Filed under: Awards

Book Links: Harper Lee bashes Trump; 25 per cent of U.K. library jobs cut; the most secret book in the world

By Becky Robertson

Harper Lee's personal letters, including one in which she trashes Donald Trump's casino, up for auction. (Salon) One quarter of the U.K.'s library workforce has been cut over past six years amid the closure of ... Read More »

March 29, 2016 | Filed under: Book links

Sara Tilley wins BMO Winterset Award

By Becky Robertson

The Newfoundland and Labrador Arts Council has announced that St. John's author and theatre artist Sara Tilley is the recipient of this year's BMO Winterset Award for her 2015 novel Duke (Pedlar Press). The award ... Read More »

March 28, 2016 | Filed under: Awards, Book news

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Allan Stratton, Frieda Wishinsky make 2016 IODE Violet Downey Book Award shortlist

Chris Chambers wins IFOA’s Battle of the Bards

Book Links: Growing number of women in book media; Imre Kertesz dies; superheros aren’t just for adults anymore

Daily Deals: Scholastic picks up Harry Potter and Fantastic Beasts movie tie-in titles; S&S acquires new Tyrell Johnson novel

Book Links: Margaret MacMillan launches video series; Trump for kids; a plagiarism mystery

Poem in Your Pocket Day comes to Canada

York professor Craig Heron recognized by International Labor History Association

Dean Jobb, Sarah Mian among Atlantic Book Awards finalists

Book Links: Harper Lee bashes Trump; 25 per cent of U.K. library jobs cut; the most secret book in the world

Sara Tilley wins BMO Winterset Award

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