Winners of the 2007 Atlantic Book Awards announced

This year’s Atlantic Book Festival culminated with the eighth annual Atlantic Book Awards, presented at Halifax’s Pier 21 over the weekend. The winners of each category are:The Mayor’s Award for Cultural Achievement in LiteratureSandra McInytre, ... Read More »

May 14, 2007

Canadian Authors Association Literary Award winners announced

By Q&Q Staff

The Canadian Authors Association (CAA) has announced the winners of its 2007 literary awards.CAA MOSAID Technology Award for FictionDream Wheels by Richard Wagamese (Doubleday Canada) CAA Award for PoetryA Curious Beatitude by Sarah Klassen (The ... Read More »

May 11, 2007

The friends of Gary Hyland

By Q&Q Staff

Hagios Press launched Gary Hyland's new poetry collection Hands Reaching in Water at the Moose Jaw Cultural Centre on May 3. More than 150 people attended and the Oak & Rose Book Shoppe sold more ... Read More »

May 11, 2007 | Filed under: Events

Claire Cameron launches The Line Painter

By Q&Q Staff

Claire Cameron launched her first novel, The Line Painter (HarperCollins Canada), at Toronto's Gladstone Hotel on April 26. (Photos courtesy of HarperCollins Canada) Cameron with HarperCollins Canada marketing manager Lindsey Lowy ... ... and with ... Read More »

May 11, 2007 | Filed under: Events

Author gets help for legal fight

By Q&Q Staff

Journalists, writers, and members of the publishing community are gathering at a Toronto club on May 24 to help author and journalist Derek Finkle. Finkle is battling a subpoena ordering him to turn over the ... Read More »

May 10, 2007

Ontario green campaign spotlights Groundwood title

By Q&Q Staff

Climate Change, a book written by Groundwood Books editor Shelley Tanaka and published by Groundwood last fall, is getting a big promotional push from an Ontario-based environmental initiative.The Flick Off campaign, created by the Toronto ... Read More »

May 10, 2007

Black Bond Books expands again

By Q&Q Staff

Black Bond Books, the family-run B.C. mini-chain, is expanding for the second time in a year. On Aug. 1, it will open a new location – its 11th – in North Vancouver’s Lynn Valley Centre ... Read More »

May 10, 2007

Flickr photo roundup: Language Acts, Ottawa Fest, and Rosemary Shipton

By Q&Q Staff

Contributors to our Q&Q Flickr photo group have been busy on the book beat in Montreal, Ottawa, and Toronto. Poet Carmine Starnino posted some pics, including the one above, from the April 27 launch of ... Read More »

May 10, 2007 | Filed under: Events

Five authors in the running for the Danuta Gleed short-fiction award

By Q&Q Staff

The Writers’ Union of Canada has released the shortlist for the 10th annual Danuta Gleed Literary Award for a first collection of Canadian Engish-language short fiction. This year's nominees are: • Baby Khaki's Wings by ... Read More »

May 9, 2007