The Toronto writer won the $10,000 prize for her collection Frying Plantain (Astoria), a series of linked stories about a teenage girl’s coming-of-age in Toronto’s Little Jamaica neighbourhood.
Jesse Thistle, Zalika Reid-Benta, J.R. McConvey win Kobo’s Emerging Writer Prizes
Stéphane Larue’s The Dishwasher wins $60,000 Amazon First Novel Award
The winning novel was chosen by a jury consisting of novelists Liz Harmer, Shani Mootoo, and Anakana Schofield.
S&S editorial director Nita Pronovost’s debut novel makes international splash
Pronovost’s debut novel about a socially awkward hotel maid who stumbles on a dead body has already been acquired in 20 countries.
Daily Deals: Puffin Canada acquires Susan Juby’s #MeToo middle-grade novel; Marissa Stapley’s lottery con novel to S&S Canada
Daily Deals: Tantor acquires audio rights to A. J. Vrana’s debut dark fantasy
Daily Deals: French rights sold to Téa Mutonji’s Shut Up You’re Pretty
In the wake of layoffs, Banff will offer two literary arts workshops online for fall
The three-day courses, dedicated to investigative journalism and to genre fiction, will be held online.
More than 700,000 sign petition to save Anne with an E
NETFLIX ANNE 700K is now trending on Twitter.
Essay: Timothy Findley believed that in times of crisis, imagination has the power to save
Sherrill Grace, an officer of the Order of Canada, on Timothy Findley’s prescient plague writing.
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