The book that Nobel Prize winner Toni Morrison has called "required reading" appears at an auspicious time for race relations in the U.S. Between the World and Me, the sophomore release from Ta-Nehisi Coates, national ... Read More »
ChiZine Publications co-editors Madeline Ashby and David Nickle have released the line-up of authors contributing to the press's forthcoming James Bond anthology, License Expired: The Unauthorized James Bond, due in November. Nineteen stories by writers ... Read More »
Five years before Justice Murray Sinclair urged the nation to “integrate indigenous knowledge” into cultural institutions as part of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission recommendations, the Art Gallery of Ontario had already begun researching a ... Read More »
July 27, 2015 | Filed under: Authors
Canadian expat Ashlyn Anstee’s debut picture book, Are We There, Yeti?, was released by Simon & Schuster Canada this week. Her follow-up, No, No, Gnome!, is forthcoming from S&S in early 2016. We caught up ... Read More »
July 23, 2015 | Filed under: Authors, Book news, Children's publishing
In 2010, poet Susan Musgrave took over the Copper Beech bed and breakfast on Haida Gwaii. A longtime resident of the B.C. island, Musgrave’s latest book, A Taste of Haida Gwaii: Food Gathering and ... Read More »
The Ontario Book Publishers Organization has announced a series of free readings it will host during the Pan Am Games in Toronto this month. The events will take place in Ontario's Celebration Zone at the ... Read More »
Nobel Prize–winning author Alice Munro has been honoured with a new stamp by Canada Post, released today in celebration of her 84th birthday. The stamp features a photograph of Munro taken by her daughter, Sheila, ... Read More »
July 10, 2015 | Filed under: Authors
Author Lawrence Hill has been appointed to the Order of Canada for his writing representing black history in Canada and for his charitable efforts to help girls and women in Africa through the Aminata Fund, ... Read More »
Dave Godfrey, who died of pancreatic cancer earlier this week, embodied a series of contradictions. He was a staunch cultural nationalist who set his best-known work of fiction in Africa; an author who prized linguistic ... Read More »
The International Festival of Authors, coming to Toronto's Harbourfront Centre Oct. 22–Nov. 1, has announced its preliminary lineup of more than 50 authors spanning multiple genres and forms. Man Booker Prize winner Anne Enright, Garth ... Read More »
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