Charming with just a touch of old-fashioned drama, the first Poetry in Voice competition was an entertaining evening of bilingual poetry recitation from some of Ontario's brightest high school students. The program is the brainchild ... Read More »
Tonight is the first televised leadership debate of the federal election. It's unlikely arts and culture will be mentioned, so here's a primer on how all parties (including the Green Party) stand on issues that ... Read More »
April 12, 2011 | Filed under: Book news, Industry news
A couple of weeks ago poet Michael Lista got the attention of the publishing Twitterverse with his National Post essay Why literary magazines should fold. Now, we don't need another American TV sitcom to point ... Read More »
April 12, 2011 | Filed under: Book news
Kathleen Winter and Emma Donoghue shortlisted for 2011 Orange Prize; judge declares women's writing in rude health Michael Crummey's Galore is the only Canadian novel on the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award shortlist Winnipeg artist Ray ... Read More »
April 12, 2011 | Filed under: Book news
Two years ago, Heather Reisman, CEO and "chief booklover" of Indigo Books and Music, predicted that e-books would cannibalize 15 per cent of traditional book sales at her stores in five years' time. Reisman has ... Read More »
April 11, 2011 | Filed under: Bookselling, Digital publishing and technology, Industry news
Yoko Ono, the widow of iconic musician John Lennon, has granted American publisher Little, Brown the rights to produce a volume of her late husband's letters. The book, titled simply The Lennon Letters, is scheduled ... Read More »
April 11, 2011 | Filed under: Book news
Sundry links from around the Web: Deirdre Baker's tribute to the life and work of fantasy author Diana Wynne Jones Kobo kicks off European expansion: e-book stores set to open in Spain and Germany in ... Read More »
April 11, 2011 | Filed under: Book news
From the May 2011 issue of Q&Q: Designer Natalie Olsen walks readers through the steps involved in designing a cover that conveys the disturbing intensity of Ian Williams' story collection Not Anyone's Anything (Freehand Books). ... Read More »
April 8, 2011 | Filed under: Book news
Here are just a few literary events happening across the country in the next week: Day two of the gritLIT literary festival kicks off with readings by Trevor Cole, Kathleen and Michael Winter at the ... Read More »
April 8, 2011 | Filed under: Events
This review of Miriam Toews' new novel, Irma Voth, will appear in the May issue of Q&Q. Guest reviewer Kerry Clare writes: Miriam Toews' follow-up to 2008's The Flying Troutmans details its eponymous protagonist's various ... Read More »
April 8, 2011 | Filed under: Book news
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