The judges for this year's Writers' Trust/McClelland & Stewart Journey Prize‚ the annual award recognizing short-fiction published in a Canadian literary magazine‚ have been announced. Trillium Book Award–winning playwright and poet Kate Cayley‚ Toronto writer (and Q&Q Agony ... Read More »

Ottawa-area Olympic slalom kayaker Michael Taylor says renowned Canadian historian Margaret MacMillan's History's People: Personalities and the ... Read More »

Finalists for the first Whistler Independent Book Awards, recognizing self-published titles in Canada‚ have been announced. Winners will be presented by the Whistler Writing Society and Vivalogue publishing on Oct. 14 at the Literary Cabaret ... Read More »

Word on the Street will host an alternate event at the Kitchener Public Library this September, following news the city was ending its 15-year relationship with the annual book festival. A selection of authors scheduled to attend the ... Read More »

Stephen R. Bown, the Ottawa-born‚ B.C.-based author, has received this year's William Mills Prize for Non-Fiction Polar Books – a biennial international honour administered by the Polar Libraries Colloquy – for his 2015 biography, White Eskimo: ... Read More »

Mad Men creator Matthew Weiner reads poems of Frank O'Hara in new audio book. (Salon) Vancouver gallery to show unseen Seuss paintings. (Toronto Star) The novella is so big right now. (The Independent) Robert Nye, ... Read More »

Author and artist Douglas Coupland has moved on from creating large-headed sculptures out of chewing gum to a new muse: redheads. To kick off what sounds like a potential new series, Coupland is looking for a ... Read More »