WordFest, the Banff-Calgary international writers festival, kicks off today, and runs until Oct. 16. For those who can't make it in person, an online radio production of Jessica Westhead's short story "Community," from her 2011 ... Read More »
Every weekend Q&Q rounds up the highlights from other websites in the St. Joseph Media family. This week's top stories include a tribute to Apple and plenty of Thanksgiving recipes. Grace Kelly gets the royal ... Read More »
October 8, 2011 | Filed under: Book news
The fiction follow-up to Joseph Boyden's 2008 Scotiabank Giller Prize“winning novel, Through Black Spruce, will be a novel for young adults. Turtle Island, written from the perspective of a young aboriginal teen grappling with gangs, ... Read More »
October 7, 2011 | Filed under: Book news
This week, the controversy dogging Chinese-Canadian author Ling Zhang's second novel, Gold Mountain Blues, flared up again as prominent Chinese-Canadian authors Wayson Choy, Sky Lee, and Paul Yee signed a letter asking Penguin Canada to ... Read More »
October 7, 2011 | Filed under: Book news, Events, Industry news
Although the Internet has revolutionized the way people discover new recipes, e-cookbooks have not yet made a big impact in the kitchen. It's not that home chefs are too busy thumbing their old recipe index ... Read More »
October 7, 2011 | Filed under: Book news, Digital publishing and technology
Canadian independent magazine Briarpatch launches "Writing in the Margins," its first annual creative writing contest Brian Joseph Davis profiles Coach House publicist extraordinaire Evan Munday (who recently launched his debut YA novel) in the Toronto ... Read More »
October 7, 2011 | Filed under: Book news
Victoria author (and frequent Q&Q reviewer) Robert J. Wiersema has landed at HarperCollins Canada for his next novel. Black Feathers, set to appear in 2013, is a coming-of-age story about a 16-year-old girl, Cassie, that ... Read More »
The road to English-language publication for Chinese-born, Toronto-based Ling Zhang's second novel, Gold Mountain Blues, has not been especially smooth, but it appears to have hit yet another speedbump. Earlier this year, allegations of plagiarism ... Read More »
October 6, 2011 | Filed under: Book news
In a year that saw literary punters make Bob Dylan the odds-on favourite (and in which Canadian readers continued to carry the torch for their own, be it Alice or Margaret), the 2011 Nobel Prize ... Read More »
October 6, 2011 | Filed under: Book news
The Canadian Library Association kicked off Canadian Library Month on Tuesday. Throughout the month of October, libraries across the country will host events to raise awareness about the importance of libraries in the nation's communities. ... Read More »
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