Bowes won this year’s award for her book 20.12m: A Short Story Collection of a Life Lived as a Road Allowance Métis (Gabriel Dumont Institute Press).
Personnel change: Transatlantic Agency
Knopf Canada launches new imprint headed by Dionne Brand
Alchemy by Knopf Canada will publish both fiction and nonfiction that decenter colonial models of literature and thought, and which address major social, political, and environmental issues.
Longlist announced for 2022 Stephen Leacock medal
Three finalists will be announced on August 15, with the winner to be named on September 27 at the medal’s 75th anniversary gala dinner.
Agency and distribution change: Monster House Publishing
Dan Breznitz wins $50,000 Donner Prize
Breznitz wins the 2021 Donner Prize for his book Innovation in Real Places: Strategies for Prosperity in an Unforgiving World.
Martha Schabas on the tension between appearance and truth
“I’m interested in the comparison between what we consider a performative art and what we consider a creative one, and the point at which they might overlap.”