Visible minorities make up a smaller percentage of Canadian writers than they do of any other group of artists in the country, according to a statistical analysis of the last census released Monday.Only 6.8% of ... Read More »

When Charles Montgomery won the Charles Taylor Prize for literary non-fiction on Monday – for his book The Last Heathen: Encounters with Ghosts and Ancestors in Melanesia, published by Douglas & McIntyre – he usedthe-last-heathen/> ... Read More »

Driven by the belief that literature has the power to transform and teach, Toronto-based Literature for Life uses books to help teenage mothers “gain confidence, build literacy skills, and develop administrative and life skills so ... Read More »

Just months ago, almost nobody had heard of Nova Scotian author Frank Parker Day or of his 1928 novel Rockbound; but after emerging as the victor during today’s final CBC Canada Reads debate, a nationalrockbound-utp-plans-to-re-release-another-day-title/> ... Read More »

Just months ago, almost nobody had heard of Nova Scotian author Frank Parker Day or of his 1928 novel Rockbound; but after the book emerged as the victor during today’s final CBC Canada Reads debate,rockbound-utp-plans-to-rerelease-another-day-title/> ... Read More »

The giant media corporation Torstar announced its year-end earnings earlier this week, and the news wasn’t good for its romance-book publishing division, Harlequin Enterprises. Though Torstar saw strong results from its many newspaper divisions –annus-horribilis/> ... Read More »

In these times of reduced expectations, publishing industry groups were pleased that Wednesday’s federal budget included lengthy renewals for two key programs and, perhaps more importantly, no funding cuts.The Liberal budget included a four-year extension ... Read More »