The troubles aren’t over for the Periodical Writers Association of Canada. Its former executive director, Victoria Ridout, has filed a $10,000 lawsuit claiming wrongful dismissal, and its new executive director, who was welcomed to the ... Read More »

For the second time this year, author Erna Paris has walked away from an award ceremony with $10,000. This week Paris won the the inaugural Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing for her book Long ... Read More »

His quest for the Giller Prize last fall stopped at the shortlist, but this week Alberta author Fred Stenson took home an equally lucrative award. Stenson’s novel The Trade (Douglas & McIntyre) has won the ... Read More »

McGraw-Hill Ryerson says high returns and the consolidation of Canada’s book retailing industry are to blame for a net loss for the first quarter of 2001. The first quarter is traditionally a weak-performing period; on ... Read More »

A struggling Canadian book industry will receive at least $28-million in new funding over the next three years as part of a major cultural initiative unveiled Wednesday by the federal Liberals. Speaking from the CBC ... Read More »

Winners of the Manitoba Writing and Publishing Awards were announced Saturday at a gala event in Winnipeg – and hometown writer Miriam Toews took home two of the prizes.Toews won both the McNally Robinson Book ... Read More »

Toronto’s Humber School for Writers has nabbed the Booker Prize-winning Irish novelist Roddy Doyle as the headliner for this year’s summer writing program. “Doyle is a very successful international author who doesn’t need to teach,” ... Read More »