The Griffin Poetry Prize has named the judges for next year’s award – and announced plans to unveil the shortlist in New York City for the first time. The jury includes Canadian poet Phyllis Webb, ... Read More »
November 11, 2003
One year after launching a distribution service aimed at small publishers, Fraser Direct is folding it and expanding another fulfillment service, Jaguar Book Group. The seven small publishers that currently make up Starbooks Distribution – ... Read More »
November 11, 2003
The RomanticHarperCollins Canada, 2003The White BoneHarperCollins Canada, 1998Mister SandmanSomerville House Books, 1995HarperPerennial edition, 2001We So Seldom Look on ... Read More »
November 10, 2003
There seemed to be no end to CLA delegates’ questions about proposed changes to Canada’s federal copyright law, though many of the queries will not be answered until regulations accompanying the bill are in place, ... Read More »
November 7, 2003
If it looks like SF and reads like SF, it could be space opera, steampunk, hard SF, a combination of the three, or ... read on.Speculative Fiction or SF: A catch-all category used to encompass ... Read More »
November 7, 2003
Hong Kong is so much in the news these days that I am drawn to a recent anthology edited by Andrew Parkin entitled From the Bluest Part of the Harbour: Poems from Hong Kong. But ... Read More »
November 7, 2003 | Filed under: Book news
Alison Griffiths and David Cruise, the wife-and-husband writing partnership who have just published The Great Adventure: How the Mounties Conquered the West (reviewed this page), remember the first time they worked on a writing project ... Read More »
November 7, 2003 | Filed under: Book news
Time, tide, and the printer wait for no one. When telling jokes and playing music, timing is crucial. And so it is with publishing reviews. We all want to read the reviews just as the ... Read More »
November 7, 2003 | Filed under: Book news
Violence in schools, once thought to be mainly a problem in the U.S., has been increasing at an alarming rate in Canada over the past decade. Violent youth crime rose 124 % between 1986 and ... Read More »
November 7, 2003
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