In Calgary on Saturday, the Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Association celebrated the winners of the 2012 Aurora Awards as part of the organization's annual convention and the city's When Words Collide festival. The night's ... Read More »
Essayist and humorist David Rakoff, whose darkly comic work has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, GQ, and The New Yorker, among other publications, has died. After two years of treatment for a malignant ... Read More »
Lovers of fantasy, sci-fi, and horror can get a taste of what's in store at the upcoming 2012 World Fantasy Convention with the recent release of the 2012 World Fantasy Awards shortlist. Canadian nominees include ... Read More »
For the third year in a row, Linda Besner and Leigh Kotsilidis will lead a group of poets and one musician on a canoe tour down the Grand River in Southwestern Ontario. The lineup for ... Read More »
Morgan Dambergs has had her finger in a few publishing pies. The Haligonian has worked as a reviewer, an editor, an intern at a publishing house, and can now add bookstore owner to her resumé. ... Read More »
August 3, 2012 | Filed under: Bookselling
Wattpad, a Toronto-based online community for international writers and readers, has put out a call for submissions for its first ever Atty Awards recognizing work by undiscovered poets. Winning entries will be selected by Margaret ... Read More »
August 2, 2012 | Filed under: Awards, Digital publishing and technology
Brad Greenwood, co-founder of Greenwoods' Bookshoppe in Edmonton, has died. Co-owner Gail Greenwood, Brad's sister, told the Edmonton Journal that the 57-year-old collapsed at work and died of heart failure on July 19. Brad and ... Read More »
August 2, 2012 | Filed under: Bookselling
After wading through 73 submissions, Taste Canada has come up with a shortlist for its 2012 Food Writing Awards. This year's list offers titles from some of the country's biggest publishers (Penguin Canada, HarperCollins Canada) ... Read More »
August 1, 2012 | Filed under: Awards
The Canadian Creative Writers and Writing Programs association has put out a call for essays on the field of creative writing studies from a Canadian academic perspective. The book, tentatively titled Creative Writing in the ... Read More »
July 31, 2012 | Filed under: Book news
Last week, Michael Redhill brought some closure to a case of hidden identity that has intrigued mystery readers for years. In a first-person essay published in Friday's Globe and Mail, Redhill revealed that since 2008, ... Read More »
July 31, 2012 | Filed under: Authors
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