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Public to vote on Giller longlist: UPDATED

This year, the Scotiabank Giller Prize is moving from CTV, its official broadcast partner for the past five years, to CBC. In conjunction with the move, the CBC has announced a new Readers' Choice contest, ... Read More »

August 2, 2011 | Filed under: Book news

Book links round-up: Vonnegut vetoed, deliberately bad writing, and more

By Jason Spencer

Missouri school bans Slaughterhouse-Five In related news, celebrate Banned Books Week Sept. 24 - Oct. 1 The results of the 2011 ... Read More »

July 29, 2011 | Filed under: Book news

Book biz round-up: the latest links

By Stuart Woods

Sundry links from around the Web: Toronto novelist Stephen Marche takes on Snooki in the National Post Canadian Manda Group, the Canadian sales agent for Guinness World Records, sets a new record for duct-taping a ... Read More »

January 10, 2011 | Filed under: Book news

New online writing community geared toward teens

By Steven W. Beattie

Parents and educators spend a lot of time, and spill a lot of ink, debating how to get teenagers interested in reading. Anyone who stops to think about the phenomenal success of Stephenie Meyers' Twilight ... Read More »

December 6, 2010 | Filed under: Book news, Libraries

Scott Griffin brings poetry into Canadian schools

By Stuart Woods

Canadian literary benefactor Scott Griffin is taking his passion for poetry “ in particular, the live recitation of poetry “ into schools across Canada with a new bilingual recitation contest that will award $10,000 to ... Read More »

November 23, 2010 | Filed under: Book news, Libraries

Canadians good at bad romance

By Scott MacDonald

The results are in for the annual Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest, which recognizes the year's worst opening lines in various book genres, and the romance category has been all sewn up by Canadians “ the winner, ... Read More »

June 30, 2010 | Filed under: Awards

“I’ll have a venti mochaccino and an award-winning book, please.”

By Steven W. Beattie

In his memoir On Writing, Stephen King advises aspiring writers to avoid writing in coffee shops. Canadian novelist Corey Redekop, by contrast, admits that "the majority of [his] writing occurs in coffee shops." There is ... Read More »

June 14, 2010 | Filed under: Book news, Libraries

The ashes of Tasha Tudor and the wisdom of Solomon

By Nathan Whitlock

Anyone who's had them knows that children are greedy, ungrateful, little creeps. Especially so when they are all grown up and bickering over a recently deceased parent's estate. This is what happened in the case ... Read More »

February 24, 2010 | Filed under: Book news

Bookmarks: Generic Wizard Nights, a feline Humbert Humbert, and more

By Alison Potstra

Sundry links from around the Web: The Ontario Library Association has announced the nominees for the 2010 Forest of Reading Program. Votes can be cast for your favourite authors at the OLA's website. Participants have ... Read More »

October 27, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Lytton’s had enough!

By Sara Forsyth

The winner of the 26th annual Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest for the worst opening line of an imaginary novel was announced last week (the winner wrote something about passion in a New York City taxi). However, ... Read More »

August 19, 2008 | Filed under: Authors, Book news, Opinion

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