Vancouver will play host to a new festival celebrating Canadian comics and graphic novels. The Vancouver Comic Arts Festival has been in the works for about a year, and last week organizers announced the event ... Read More »
Cuisine Canada and the University of Guelph released the shortlists for this year's Canadian Culinary Book Awards on Wednesday. Vancouver's Whitecap Books leads the list of nominees with five titles in the running, including 3 ... Read More »
August 3, 2011 | Filed under: Awards
The Writers' Trust of Canada, in collaboration with Samara, has named Ezra Levant's Shakedown: How Our Government is Undermining Democracy in the Name of Human Rights (McClelland & Stewart, 2009) the Best Canadian Political Book ... Read More »
August 3, 2011 | Filed under: Book news
Three Canadian authors have made the 2011 Man Booker Prize for Fiction longlist, announced today. Alison Pick's Far to Go (House of Anansi Press, Q&Q's September 2010 cover profile), Esi Edugyan's Half-Blood Blues (forthcoming from ... Read More »
July 26, 2011 | Filed under: Book news
Big changes are underway in the e-book app world. Since Saturday, iOS (Apple's operating system for mobile devices such as iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad) apps for Kobo, Barnes & Noble's Nook, and Amazon's Kindle ... Read More »
July 25, 2011 | Filed under: Book news, Digital publishing and technology
Margaret Atwood took to Twitter on Thursday to mobilize her 225,302 followers against the potential privatization and service cuts to the Toronto Public Library. The traffic resulting after @MargaretAtwood retweeted "Toronto's libraries are under threat ... Read More »
The Saskatchewan Writers' Guild has named Ryshia Kennie winner of the 2011 City of Regina Writing Award. Kennie has written two romance novels, From the Dust (2007) and Ring of Desire (2009), both published by ... Read More »
Frankie Flowers made his way to Springridge Farm in Milton, Ontario, to promote his new gardening book, Get Growing: An Everyday Guide to High-impact, Low-fuss Gardens (Collins Canada). (Photos courtesy of Springridge Farm.) Flowers gets ... Read More »
June 10, 2011 | Filed under: Book news
Spurred by the recent federal election, The Writers' Trust of Canada has partnered with Samara, a non-profit organization that seeks to strengthen citizen engagement in Canada's democratic system, to launch a project called The Best ... Read More »
June 8, 2011 | Filed under: Book news
D&M Publishers senior editor Lucy Kenward has won the 2010 Tom Fairley Award for Editorial Excellence for her work on Vij's at Home: Relax, Honey by Meeru Dhalwala and Vikram Vij. Established in 1983, the ... Read More »
June 3, 2011 | Filed under: Awards
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