by Julie Baldassi

Carson, Michaels, Goyette among Griffin nominees

The Griffin Poetry Prize finalists were announced today, revealing a strong all-female Canadian shortlist that includes two McClelland & Stewart authors and a third from Nova Scotia's Gaspereau Press. Poet Jeramy Dodds, a finalist for ... Read More »

April 8, 2014 | Filed under: Awards

Photos: Politics and the Pen gala

By Julie Baldassi

Politicians and writers gathered at the Fairmont ChÃ¢teau Laurier in Ottawa last week for the black-tie Politics and the Pen gala, a fundraiser for The Writers' Trust of Canada. Maclean's journalist Paul Wells was awarded the $25,000 ... Read More »

April 7, 2014 | Filed under: Awards

LAC to outsource library catalogue to U.S. firm

By Julie Baldassi

News broke this week that Library and Archives Canada intends to outsource AMICUS, Canada's free national catalogue listing library holdings across the country, to a U.S.-based firm. The agency posted a notice proposing a sole-sourced ... Read More »

April 4, 2014 | Filed under: Libraries

Paul Wells wins Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing

By Julie Baldassi

Journalist and Maclean's politics editor Paul Wells has won the Writers' Trust's Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing for The Longer I'm Prime Minister: Stephen Harper and Canada, 2006 ”, published by Random House Canada. ... Read More »

April 3, 2014 | Filed under: Awards

2014 Lionel Gelber Prize awarded to Gary J. Bass

By Julie Baldassi

Princeton University politics professor Gary J. Bass is the winner of the 2014 Lionel Gelber Prize for The Blood Telegram: Nixon, Kissinger, and a Forgotten Genocide (Alfred A. Knopf). The $15,000 prize is awarded to ... Read More »

April 1, 2014 | Filed under: Awards

Munsch translated into Mi’kmaq, Binchy to publish posthumously, and more

By Julie Baldassi

Cape Breton educators translate Robert Munsch books into Mi'kmaq CBC Canada Writes launches Shakespeare Selfie writing challenge for the Bard's 450th birthday Maeve Binchy's second posthumous book to be published this month Russell Brand announces debut children's book series Making ... Read More »

April 1, 2014 | Filed under: Book links

Dundurn author E.R. Brown nominated for an Edgar Award

By Julie Baldassi

Vancouver author E.R. Brown is nominated for an Edgar Award for Almost Criminal, about a high school graduate who becomes involved in a B.C. grow-op (which itself has become involved with a local biker gang). ... Read More »

March 27, 2014 | Filed under: Awards

Toronto’s Children’s Book Bank wins IBBY-Asahi Reading Promotion Award

By Julie Baldassi

A Toronto literacy organization has been named co-winner of the IBBY-Asahi Reading Promotion Award at this year's Bologna Children's Book Fair. The Children's Book Bank, a storefront literacy organization located in the high-density, low-income Toronto ... Read More »

March 25, 2014 | Filed under: Awards

Alice Munro honoured by Royal Canadian Mint

By Julie Baldassi

The Royal Canadian Mint has offered up a token of its appreciation for Canada's best short story writer and Nobel Prize for Literature winner Alice Munro with the release of a collector's edition $5 silver ... Read More »

March 24, 2014 | Filed under: Book news

Snapshot: Christen Thomas

By Julie Baldassi

Over nearly four decades, the Literary Press Group has evolved from promoting CanLit out of the back of a refurbished school bus to becoming an essential marketing and sales service for Canada’s indie publishers. In ... Read More »

March 21, 2014

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Carson, Michaels, Goyette among Griffin nominees

Photos: Politics and the Pen gala

LAC to outsource library catalogue to U.S. firm

Paul Wells wins Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing

2014 Lionel Gelber Prize awarded to Gary J. Bass

Munsch translated into Mi’kmaq, Binchy to publish posthumously, and more

Dundurn author E.R. Brown nominated for an Edgar Award

Toronto’s Children’s Book Bank wins IBBY-Asahi Reading Promotion Award

Alice Munro honoured by Royal Canadian Mint

Snapshot: Christen Thomas

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