Writer, editor, and small-press advocate Stuart Ross has won the $10,000 Harbourfront Festival Prize.
Alicia Elliott, Tanya Talaga on historic all-female shortlist for Hilary Weston
For the first time in its 22-year history, five women have been shortlisted for the Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction.
Daemon Fairless, Kate Harris, Terese Marie Mailhot shortlisted for Edna Staebler Award
The $10,000 award honours writers for a first or second work of creative non-fiction that features a Canadian locale and/or significance.
Jillian Tamaki, Jonathan Auxier, and Marie-Louise Gay among CCBC Award finalists
The Canadian Children’s Book Centre has announced the finalists in eight award categories, celebrating the best in Canadian children’s literature.

Margaret Atwood, Andre Alexis compete on Giller Prize longlist dominated by previous finalists
Twelve titles were picked out of the 117 submissions up for consideration for this year’s $100,000 prize.
Toronto’s Dominik Parisien wins Hugo Award for co-editing Uncanny Magazine’s “Disabled People Destroy Science Fiction!”
Toronto writer and editor Dominik Parisien has won a Hugo Award for co-editing Uncanny Magazine’s Disabled People Destroy Science Fiction! special issue.
Shortlist for Toronto Book Awards includes previous winners Dionne Brand, Cary Fagan
The shortlist has been announced for the Toronto Book Awards, which celebrates work evocative of Toronto.
Jury announced for 2019 Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Non-fiction
Ivan Coyote, Trevor Herriot, and Manjushree Thapa will jury the $60,000 prize.
Eden Robinson, Amber Dawn shortlisted for Sunburst Award
The Sunburst Award Committee has announced the shortlist for excellence in Canadian fantasy writing.
Margaret Atwood’s Handmaid’s Tale sequel longlisted for Booker, alongside Biblioasis’s Ducks, Newburyport
Margaret Atwood’s forthcoming novel, The Testaments, is among the 13 titles longlisted for the £50,000 Booker Prize.