It was a going-out-of-business sale without the cash registers. When the Harper government shut down the 40-year-old Freshwater Institute’s Eric Marshall Library at the University of Manitoba last year, anyone who happened by was allowed ... Read More »

This summer, Canada’s newest writers’ residency is set to open its doors in Ameliasburgh, a small town in Ontario’s bucolic Prince Edward County. Housed in the former A-frame cottage of the late poet Al Purdy ... Read More »

On Valentine’s Day, some 250 publishing professionals, authors, storytellers, translators, government officials, festival programmers, educators, librarians, and others gathered in Montreal for a colloquium on the future of Canadian literature in both official languages. Organized ... Read More »

In early May, Q&Q learned that Oxford University Press was planning to quietly shutter its trade publishing division in Canada. As industry shakeups go, the change was fairly minor: OUP Canada publishes only about a ... Read More »