To mark World Poetry Day, the League of Canadian Poets has announced the longlists for the three awards it administers: the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award, the Pat Lowther Memorial Award, and the Raymond Souster Award.
Carleigh Baker, David Chariandy, Zoey Leigh Peterson up for BC Book Prizes
Catherine Hernandez, Kai Cheng Thom up for Triangle Awards
McGill-Queen’s University Press secures four of five titles on Canada Prize shortlist
Travis Lupick wins George Ryga Award; draws awareness to overdose epidemic
Georgia Straight journalist Travis Lupick has won the George Ryga Award for Social Awareness in Literature for his book Fighting for Space: How a Group of Drug Users Transformed One City’s Struggle with Addiction, published by Arsenal Pulp Press.
Annick Press named finalist for Bologna Prize for the Best Children’s Publishers of the Year
Toronto’s Annick Press has been shortlisted for this year’s Bologna Prize for the Best Children’s Publishers of the Year.
Pottersfield Press launches creative non-fiction prize
Nova Scotia’s Pottersfield Press is hoping to discover new voices with its inaugural Pottersfield Prize for Creative Non-fiction.
David Chariandy, Billie Livingston, and Diane Schoemperlen among the winners at the 2017 Writers’ Trust awards
David Chariandy, James Maskalyk, Diane Schoemperlen, and Louise Bernice Halfe were among the big winners at the 2017 Writers’ Trust Awards.
Crowdfunded Indigenous Voices Awards formally launches, with focus on emerging talent
The Indigenous Literary Studies Association has launched the Indigenous Voices Awards, which began as a crowdfunding campaign in response to the notorious #AppropriationPrize hashtag in May.
Crowdfunded Emerging Indigenous Voices Prize surpasses $90,000, receives endowment
The Emerging Indigenous Voices campaign launched on crowdfunding platform Indiegogo last week by Toronto lawyer Robin Parker has raised more than $90,000, from more than 1,250 donors, toward a new Indigenous literary prize.
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