The season of high-profile literary awards and author festivals is on its way, and there's no shortage of new releases from marquee names. In the July/August issue, Q&Q looks ahead at some of the fall's ... Read More »
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After two years and $75,000 in legal fees, charges have been dropped against Ryan Matheson, a U.S. citizen accused of bringing child pornography into Canada after border officials discovered manga art on his computer. According ... Read More »
March 16, 2012 | Filed under: Book news
In the January/February issue, Q&Q looks ahead at the spring season's new books. MEMOIR AND BIOGRAPHY Revolutionary activity in the Middle East and North Africa has created an appetite for stories about life in these ... Read More »
The Victoria Book Prize Society announced author Jack Hodgins and illustrator Kristi Bridgeman as the winners of the 2011 Victoria Book Prize Awards at a gala on Wednesday evening. Victoria mayor Dean Fortin and Brian ... Read More »
Canada lands on the International Intellectual Property Alliance's priority watch list as "haven" for international piracy organizations All-nighter term papers just got a lot trickier: design flaw at University of Calgary's new state-of-the-art library leaves ... Read More »
Terry Fallis's The Best Laid Plans won the 10th edition of CBC Radio's Canada Reads competition this morning. Defended by broadcast journalist Ali Velshi, Fallis' novel beat out Ami McKay's novel The Birth House in ... Read More »
February 9, 2011 | Filed under: Book news
The winner of the second annual Man Asian Literary Prize has a Canadian connection “ the 31-year-old Filipino author lives in Montreal, where he works as a copy-editor at The Gazette. Miguel Syjuco, who received ... Read More »
November 14, 2008 | Filed under: Awards
In preparation for tomorrow's Scotiabank Giller Prize gala award ceremony, the National Post has recruited a cadre of industry insiders, authors, and commentators for a special online roundtable about literary awards and their effects on ... Read More »
November 10, 2008 | Filed under: Awards
Editor and author John Warner has a lengthy post on Maud Newton's blog about the non-success of his fledgling publishing enterprise, TOW Books, a humour imprint that was supposed to make him the Judd Apatow ... Read More »
September 10, 2008 | Filed under: Industry news, Opinion
There's a minor scandal brewing for American funnyman David Sedaris. Last month in a New Republic piece, Alex Heard called out Sedaris on embellishments and fabrications in several of his non-fiction humour pieces. Most of ... Read More »
April 12, 2007 | Filed under: Authors
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