by Ryan Porter

Diane Schoemperlen honoured with $50,000 Canada Council Molson Prize

Kingston, Ontario–based writer Diane Schoemperlen has been awarded the $50,000 Canada Council for the Arts’ Molson Prize, announced on June 14. The 63-year-old author has written 14 books of fiction and non-fiction including her 2016 ... Read More »

June 21, 2018

Daily Deals: Journalist Eternity Martis to publish debut essay collection

By Ryan Porter

McClelland & Stewart publisher Jared Bland and editor Haley Cullingham have acquired rights to journalist Eternity Martis’ debut collection of essays They Said This Would Be Fun. The memoir of the author’s university experience is ... Read More »

June 18, 2018

Twitter hashtag leads to publication for two Canadian authors

By Ryan Porter

Aspiring authors, choose your characters wisely – and we’re not talking about the ones in your bees-inherit-the-Earth dystopian fantasy. Writers sitting on publication-ready manuscripts are invited to pitch them to Canadian publishers in 280-character tweets ... Read More »

June 18, 2018

Tanya Talaga, Joanne Robertson win Indigenous Literature Award

By Ryan Porter

A jury of Indigenous librarians from across Ontario have selected Tanya Talaga’s Seven Fallen Feathers: Racism, Death, and Hard Truths in a Northern City (House of Anansi Press) and Joanne Robertson’s The Water Walker (Second Story Press) ... Read More »

June 18, 2018

The League of Canadian Poets announces winners of the 2018 Annual Poetry Awards

By Ryan Porter

The League of Canadian Poets has named the winners of the 2018 Annual Poetry Awards: Emily Nilsen has won the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award in recognition of an author’s first book for Otolith (Goose Lane ... Read More »

June 18, 2018

Daily Deals: The CBC’s Jeremy Allingham to tackle bare-knuckle hockey brawls

By Ryan Porter

Arsenal Pulp Press publisher Brian Lam has acquired rights to Vancouver-based CBC journalist Jeremy Allingham's first book, Major Misconduct: Why We Let Kids Fight on Ice. The book focuses on bare-knuckle boxing in hockey and the ... Read More »

June 14, 2018

Book*hug revising pulled poetry collection

By Ryan Porter

Toronto publisher Book*hug has announced plans to issue a revised edition of Shannon Webb-Campbell’s poetry collection Who Took My Sister? The small press pulled the book in April upon learning that Webb-Campbell, a Montreal-based poet ... Read More »

June 14, 2018

Why Rahim Ladha has committed $34,800 a year to two new monthly literary prizes

By Ryan Porter

Two new monthly literary prizes, worth $1,000 each, have been announced by Toronto fundraising consultant Rahim Ladha. Spark – a new monthly literary prize for Canadian queer, trans, two-spirited, Black, or Indigenous writers – is ... Read More »

June 13, 2018

Diversity driving sales in kidlit, says Book Summit keynote Zareen Jaffery

By Ryan Porter

Growing up in an affluent Connecticut neighbourhood, Zareen Jaffery – keynote speaker at the Toronto publishing conference Book Summit on June 14 – didn’t see a South Asian person outside of her family until Grade ... Read More »

June 13, 2018

Jennifer Craig wins Leacock Medal for Gone to Pot

By Ryan Porter

Nelson, B.C.–based author Jennifer Craig has won the $15,000 Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour for Gone to Pot (Second Story Press). The novel is about a grandmother who, in a moment of financial desperation, ... Read More »

June 10, 2018

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Diane Schoemperlen honoured with $50,000 Canada Council Molson Prize

Daily Deals: Journalist Eternity Martis to publish debut essay collection

Twitter hashtag leads to publication for two Canadian authors

Tanya Talaga, Joanne Robertson win Indigenous Literature Award

The League of Canadian Poets announces winners of the 2018 Annual Poetry Awards

Daily Deals: The CBC’s Jeremy Allingham to tackle bare-knuckle hockey brawls

Book*hug revising pulled poetry collection

Why Rahim Ladha has committed $34,800 a year to two new monthly literary prizes

Diversity driving sales in kidlit, says Book Summit keynote Zareen Jaffery

Jennifer Craig wins Leacock Medal for Gone to Pot

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