The donation will be split evenly between the Black Legal Action Centre, the Black Health Alliance, and the Nia Centre for the Arts.
Six authors shortlisted for Amazon First Novel Award
The winner, to be announced online the morning of June 25, will receive $60,000.
Christian “B.A.” Johnston publishes a picture book about a surly, ketchup chips–loving seagull
Made with illustrator Paul Hammond, Gary the Seagull features an exasperated beach bird with a passing resemblance to a certain SCTV actor
Sunburst Award longlist includes André Alexis, Johanna Skibsrud, Richard Van Camp
The short list will be announced in July with winners announced in September.
Heidi L. M. Jacobs’s debut Molly of the Mall wins Leacock Medal
Jacobs was shortlisted alongside Amy Spurway’s Crow and Drew Hayden Taylor’s play Cottagers and Indians.
Digital learning platform Top Hat to acquire Nelson’s higher-ed textbook business
The Toronto digital-learning platform is used in 750 of the top 1,000 post-secondary schools in North America.
Leona Trainer remembered as a trailblazer in the areas of sales and children’s publishing
Eric Walters’s new pandemic novel took 41 days to write, edit, and publish
Don’t Stand So Close to Me tackles the world as it is right now: remote learning, physical distancing, quarantining, and the closing of all non-essential services.
Obituary: Leona Trainer, August 1, 1935–April 30, 2020
Leona Trainer, age 84, passed away peacefully on April 30, 2020.
Premiere issue of The Quarantine Review tackles life with COVID, social inequity, and haircuts
The Quarantine Review is a digital literary journal to be published by Dundurn. The premiere issue will launch June 6.
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