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We are stardust, we are golden

As reported on Q&Q Omni, the lineup for the BOOKED! author festival has been officially released, following a leak earlier this week. The Globe and Mail reported on the announcement today as well, focusing, naturally ... Read More »

May 3, 2007 | Filed under: Events

Garden labyrinth to honour Carol Shields

By Nathan Whitlock

CBC.ca reports that Carol Shields’ family and friends gathered in a Winnipeg park on Monday for an official sod-turning ceremony, kicking off the creation of a garden labyrinth in the author’s honour. When it is ... Read More »

May 2, 2007 | Filed under: Authors, Events

BOOKED! lineup made public

By Leigh Anne Williams

Today Reed Exhibitions posted some much-awaited details on BOOKED!, the author festival that's running just before the BookExpo Canada convention and trade show next month. The most notable event is a gala tribute to horror ... Read More »

May 1, 2007 | Filed under: Events

The Coach House Banjoree

By Q&Q Staff

Playwright, author, and, yes, banjo player Sean Dixon launched his novel The Girls Who Saw Everything (Coach House Books) at Toronto's Gladstone Hotel on April 26. (Photos courtesy of Coach House Books.) Sean Dixon in ... Read More »

April 30, 2007 | Filed under: Events

Calgary launch for Andrew Wedderburn's The Milk Chicken Bomb

By Q&Q Staff

Coach House Books hosted a launch at Calgary's Broken City for Andrew Wedderburn's new novel, The Milk Chicken Bomb. (Photos by Jonathan Ball and Paul Kennett.) Andrew Wedderburn reading from The Milk Chicken Bomb. Chris ... Read More »

April 25, 2007 | Filed under: Events

London Book Fair

By Q&Q Staff

Canadians wave the flag with Canada's High Commissioner to the U.K. at the Canadian booth at the London Book Fair. (Photos by Liz Thomson.) Gathered at the Canada booth at the London Book Fair (from ... Read More »

April 24, 2007 | Filed under: Events

British Columbia Award for Canadian Non-fiction

By Q&Q Staff

Noah Richler won the $25,000 British Columbia Award for Canadian Non-fiction for his book This Is My Country, What's Yours?: A Literary Atlas of Canada (McClelland & Stewart). (Photos by Dave Roels.) B.C. Premier ... Read More »

April 20, 2007 | Filed under: Awards, Events

New event photos: Mallick, Sharp, and more

By Leigh Anne Williams

It had to be one of the swankiest Canadian book launches on record: Rosalie Wise Sharp's memoir Rifke was launched at the Four Seasons Hotel in Toronto on April 17, where Sharp's husband, Four Seasons ... Read More »

April 18, 2007 | Filed under: Events

The Halifax International Writers' Festival

By Q&Q Staff

The Halifax International Writers' Festival ran from March 28 through April 1. (Photos by HIWF.) CBC Radio's Olga Milosovich (at the podium) hosts an event with (from left) Tanya Davis, Lorri Neilsen Glenn, Stephanie ... Read More »

April 18, 2007 | Filed under: Events

Cake, but no Death, for Heather Mallick's new book

By Q&Q Staff

Heather Mallick launched her new collection of acerbic essays, Cake or Death: The Excruciating Choices of Everyday Life (Knopf Canada), at an event held in the labyrinthine Verity Women's Club in downtown Toronto on April ... Read More »

April 18, 2007 | Filed under: Events

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