by Stuart Woods

Looking to secure online future, Joyland turns to print

What does an acclaimed online literary magazine do when in need of funds? If you're Joyland, the short fiction "hub" founded by Emily Schultz and Brian Joseph Davis, one answer is to embrace a cutting-edge ... Read More »

January 5, 2012 | Filed under: Book news, Digital publishing and technology

Josef Skvorecky, author of The Engineer of Human Souls, dies at 87

By Stuart Woods

The dissident writer and publisher Josef Skvorecky, author of 1984's Governor General's Literary Award“winning novel The Engineer of Human Souls, has died at the age of 87, according to media reports. Skvorecky came to Canada ... Read More »

January 3, 2012 | Filed under: Authors, Book news

Charles Taylor Prize reveals first ever longlist

By Stuart Woods

Since it was launched in 2000, the Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-fiction has traditionally been among the first major literary prizes celebrated in the new year. Now, for the first time, organizers have revealed ... Read More »

December 12, 2011 | Filed under: Awards, Book news

Canada Reads announces non-fiction nominees

By Stuart Woods

The first ever non-fiction edition of CBC Canada Reads features five titles that chronicle everything from a cross-Canada musical tour, a woman's harrowing experience in an Iranian prison, the hunt for a Siberian tiger, a ... Read More »

November 23, 2011 | Filed under: Awards, Book news

Foran, deWitt add GGs to literary accolades

By Stuart Woods

Two of the most high-profile winners of the 2011 Governor General's Literary Awards have already won major literary prizes this season. Charles Foran won the non-fiction prize for Mordecai: The Life & Times (Knopf Canada), which ... Read More »

November 15, 2011 | Filed under: Awards, Book news

Indigo to focus on new product design with Kobo cash influx

By Stuart Woods

A story in today's Globe and Mail looks at what the Kobo sale means for its majority owner, Indigo Books & Music, which is likely to find itself flush with cash as a result of ... Read More »

November 10, 2011 | Filed under: Book news

$10,000 Alberta prize now open to books published out of province

By Stuart Woods

Organizers of the Alberta Readers' Choice Award, now in its third year, have taken steps to quiet a muted strain of controversy that has attached itself to the prize since its inception. The $10,000 award, ... Read More »

November 9, 2011 | Filed under: Awards, Book news, Libraries

Indigo’s sale of Kobo realizes “a stupendous return,” Reisman says

By Stuart Woods

As many in Canadian publishing's inner circle primped and primed themselves for the Scotiabank Giller Prize gala, important industry news of another sort broke with the announcement Tuesday evening of Indigo's decision to sell its ... Read More »

November 9, 2011 | Filed under: Book news

Edugyan’s unpredictable year culminates in Giller win

By Stuart Woods

A novel that, less than a year ago, was without a Canadian publisher has won the country's most prestigious literary prize. Esi Edugyan's Half-Blood Blues, about a jazz musician who disappears in Nazi-occupied France, was ... Read More »

November 9, 2011 | Filed under: Awards, Book news