by Steven W. Beattie

Tim Cook’s First World War volume named winner of the 2018 J.W. Dafoe Book Prize

Ottawa-based historian Tim Cook has won the $10,000 J.W. Dafoe Book Prize for his latest volume of military history, Vimy: The Battle and the Legend (Allen Lane Canada). The book takes a revisionist approach to ... Read More »

April 9, 2018

Billy-Ray Belcourt among nominees for the Robert Kroetsch City of Edmonton Book Prize

By Steven W. Beattie

Billy-Ray Belcourt, whose 2017 collection This Wound Is a World (Frontenac House) was one of last year's most acclaimed works of poetry, is one of three authors shortlisted for the 2018 Robert Kroetsch City of ... Read More »

April 9, 2018

Winnipeg’s Great Plains Publications changes hands

By Steven W. Beattie

A quarter-century after appearing on the Prairies publishing scene in Winnipeg, Great Plains Publications is seeing changes in its leadership with the departure of publisher Gregg Shilliday and executive editor Ingeborg Boyens. Shilliday and Boyens ... Read More »

March 15, 2018

Between the Lines, Inanna Publications, and Fernwood Publishing join the International Women’s Strike

By Steven W. Beattie

Thursday, March 8 is International Women's Day, and to mark the occasion, three Canadian publishers are going on strike in solidarity with women around the world. Between the Lines, Inanna Publications, and Fernwood Publishing will ... Read More »

March 7, 2018

Writer Nancy Richler remembered as a “generous person and a tremendously gifted novelist”

By Steven W. Beattie

When Nancy Richler's agent, Dean Cooke, telephoned to inform her that her third novel, The Imposter Bride, had been shortlisted for the 2012 Scotiabank Giller Prize, the author was washing her floor. She "acknowledged the ... Read More »

January 25, 2018 | Filed under: Authors

Naben Ruthnum

By Steven W. Beattie

How Nathan Ripley subverts genre conventions in his debut thriller, Find You in the Dark

January 18, 2018

Spring Preview 2018: Fiction

By Steven W. Beattie

Gone girl Claudia Dey’s first novel, Stunt, was a Q&Q Book of the Year for 2008, in addition to being shortlisted for the Amazon.ca First Novel Award. Dey’s highly anticipated follow-up tells the story of ... Read More »

January 17, 2018

Remembering Don Coles, 1927–2017

By Steven W. Beattie

Don Coles, the Canadian poet and teacher who died on Nov. 29 at the age of 90, didn't begin publishing until he was 47. That was typical for the poet, who worked slowly and deliberately, ... Read More »

December 11, 2017

2017 Books of the Year: Nick Mount and Elaine Dewar examine the beginning and the end of an era in CanLit

By Steven W. Beattie

In writing about the emergence of CanLit over the past 60 years, both Nick Mount and Elaine Dewar reference the Royal Commission on National Development in the Arts, Letters and Sciences, 1949–1951, more colloquially known ... Read More »

December 8, 2017

2017 Books of the Year: Carleigh Baker on finding hope that a new openness toward Indigenous stories is emerging

By Steven W. Beattie

When the controversy around Joseph Boyden’s Indigenous heritage broke wide open last year, it did not come as a shock to author and journalist Carleigh Baker. “The Joseph Boyden conversation had been going on for ... Read More »

December 8, 2017

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Tim Cook’s First World War volume named winner of the 2018 J.W. Dafoe Book Prize

Billy-Ray Belcourt among nominees for the Robert Kroetsch City of Edmonton Book Prize

Winnipeg’s Great Plains Publications changes hands

Between the Lines, Inanna Publications, and Fernwood Publishing join the International Women’s Strike

Writer Nancy Richler remembered as a “generous person and a tremendously gifted novelist”

Naben Ruthnum

Spring Preview 2018: Fiction

Remembering Don Coles, 1927–2017

2017 Books of the Year: Nick Mount and Elaine Dewar examine the beginning and the end of an era in CanLit

2017 Books of the Year: Carleigh Baker on finding hope that a new openness toward Indigenous stories is emerging

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