Debut novelist Sean Michaels has won this year’s Scotiabank Giller Prize for Us Conductors (Random House Canada). The award was presented Monday night at a gala at Toronto's Ritz-Carlton hotel. Michaels received $100,000, the largest ... Read More »
Nancy Rose never anticipated that her hobby of photographing wildlife in her backyard would result in a book deal. But when Rose – a high-school guidance counsellor from Bedford, Nova Scotia – began taking staged ... Read More »
October 30, 2014 | Filed under: Authors, Children's publishing
If her friend and fellow comedian Steve Martin had his way, Andrea Martin’s debut book would have been called Perky Tits. “In the end,” she writes in the book’s prologue, “my beloved editor nixed the ... Read More »
October 23, 2014 | Filed under: Authors, Book culture
It’s been a rich season for Can-comedy titles, with memoirs from SCTV’s Andrea Martin and Martin Short, and now Kids in the Hall’s Bruce McCulloch. Let’s Start a Riot: How a Young Drunk Punk Became ... Read More »
October 20, 2014 | Filed under: Authors, Book culture
A single-volume tasting menu of short-fiction writers will introduce readers to some of the most important voices in Canadian literature, writes John Metcalf Short stories have for years been considered a minor form, despite the ... Read More »
October 17, 2014 | Filed under: Authors, Book culture
We’re about 20 minutes into our chat when Douglas Coupland calls me stupid. Well, alright, not me personally, but the type of individual who might harbour an attitude I’d just tentatively expressed. The subject we’re ... Read More »
October 10, 2014 | Filed under: Authors
Throughout October (which happens to be Canadian Library Month), children’s book author and illustrator Patricia Storms will be conducting a series of workshops with the Toronto Public Library as IBBY Canada’s Joanne Fitzgerald illustrator-in-residence. The ... Read More »
October 1, 2014 | Filed under: Authors, Book news, Children's publishing
Linda Griffiths, actor, playwright, and staunch advocate for Canadian theatre, succumbed to breast cancer in Toronto over the weekend. She was 60 years old. Griffiths was best known for her 1980 one-woman play Maggie and ... Read More »
September 22, 2014 | Filed under: Authors
Quillblog was deeply saddened to learn last week of the passing of Wayne Tefs, author, critic, and co-founder of the Winnipeg publishing house Turnstone Press. Reports in the media indicate only that Tefs, 67, died ... Read More »
September 22, 2014 | Filed under: Authors
Close to 3,000 fans piled into Toronto's Sony Centre Saturday night to witness the pop-culture phenomenon known as Lena Dunham, in town headlining the JFL42 comedy festival. (Little did anyone know that Dunham was planning ... Read More »
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