It appears there will be few exceptions to new restrictions announced last week by the Department of Canadian Heritage regarding its funding for the magazine and periodical sector, putting the future of many of Canada's ... Read More »

A difference of priorities has divided the organizers of the annual Atlantic Book Awards, leading to two competing literary awards programs scheduled to run less than a month apart. There will now be the Atlantic ... Read More »

Scott Symons is breathing through a cigarette, drinking coffee, speaking variously of “cataclysms” gone and coming, of emotional truth, and of his undeserved name as the enfant terrible of Canadian literature. “I think of myself ... Read More »

The Public Lending Right Commission, which compensates Canadian authors for the use of their books in libraries, is mailing out $9.9-million in cheques this year, an increase or more than $700,000 from last year. According ... Read More »

The Harper Tories have promised to maintain existing funding levels for the country’s magazine industry ($75.5-million annually), but guidelines announced this week for the new Canada Periodical Fund could put Canada’s small-run literary magazines in ... Read More »