“I am happy,” wrote the poet David McFadden in a 2014 article for Toronto Life. “I have many joys. My wife and I have a strong marriage. I had a wonderful time helping to renovate ... Read More »
June 11, 2018
This year, the Donner Prize, which recognizes the best in public policy writing in Canada, celebrates its 20th anniversary. Administered by the Donner Canadian Foundation, the award bills itself as "the most prestigious prize of ... Read More »
May 14, 2018
At a gala event in Ottawa on Wednesday evening, Toronto Star reporter Tanya Talaga added another laurel to those already bestowed upon her debut work of non-fiction. Talaga's book, Seven Fallen Feathers: Racism, Death and Hard Truths ... Read More »
May 10, 2018
The shortlist for the 21st annual Danuta Gleed Literary Award, given for the best debut collection of short fiction in English, was announced today. The five-title list is composed entirely of books from regional presses ... Read More »
May 9, 2018
David Chariandy has been named the winner of the 2018 Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize for his novel, Brother (McClelland & Stewart). Chariandy, who also won the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize, was named the winner ... Read More »
May 7, 2018
Tuscarora writer Alicia Elliott has been named the recipient of the $10,000 RBC Taylor Emerging Writer Award. The prize is intended to assist a writer with demonstrated promise in the completion of a work-in-progress "preferably ... Read More »
May 3, 2018
"With a poem, you’re trying to say the unsayable.” As poetic manifestoes go, this one is fairly typical of Toronto’s Jeff Latosik: the language is straightforward, but the statement contains layers of meaning and ambiguity, ... Read More »
April 30, 2018
“I’ve always felt that in society there are three main fields: culture, politics, and economy,” says Herménégilde Chiasson, the unofficial poet laureate of the region in eastern Canada known as Acadia. “Culture is at the ... Read More »
April 23, 2018
"I wanted to be a book publisher. It wasn't much more complicated than that." That's how Kenneth Whyte explains his newest venture: a non-fiction publishing company called The Sutherland House. "I've spent my whole career ... Read More »
April 12, 2018
One day after being shortlisted for the Robert Kroetsch City of Edmonton Book Prize, Billy-Ray Belcourt has been nominated for the $65,000 Griffin Poetry Prize, the country's richest prize for poetry. Belcourt, an Indigenous poet ... Read More »
April 10, 2018
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