Talent show TV is as popular in Arab nations as it is in the West, according to a report in The Guardian. An Abu Dhabi-based show estimates it has an audience of 17 million. It’s ... Read More »
March 30, 2007 | Filed under: Events
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Kenneth J. Harvey's novel Inside won the 2006 Winterset Award at Government House in St. John's, Newfoundland on March 29. The International Board on Books for Young People's biennial fundraiser was held at Toronto's Lula ... Read More »
Rather than provide free advertising by wearing clothing from corporations that can easily afford to buy marketing campaigns, why not encourage literacy by wearing what you read? The website Literary Rags produces literary themed t-shirts ... Read More »
February 23, 2007 | Filed under: Authors, Bookselling
Scottish writer Stef Penney has won the first-novel prize in the Costa Book Awards for The Tenderness of Wolves. Set in the Canadian North during the late 19th century, the story centers on a murder ... Read More »
January 10, 2007 | Filed under: Industry news
Publishers can be counted on to come up with some pretty gimmicky promotional stunts every once in a while, but few can reach the go-big-or-go-home moxie of Shuvatara International School English Department head Wangdi Gyalpo, ... Read More »
June 7, 2006 | Filed under: Book news
Can you wield a metaphor with ferocity? Sling stanzas with the best of 'em? Have you won a GG or Griffin or two? Well, you may be in luck, because the hunt is on for ... Read More »
May 10, 2006 | Filed under: Book news
A new website devoted to Canadian poetry has recently been launched. Edited by poets and reviewers Dani Couture and Alex Boyd, who also organizes Toronto's IV lounge reading series, the Northern Poetry Review bills itself ... Read More »
April 25, 2006 | Filed under: Industry news
There are a couple of photo-related items to point out today. The CBC Arts website has a photo gallery of stills from Carte Blanche, a brand-new collection of the work of various Canadian photographers and ... Read More »
April 20, 2006 | Filed under: Industry news
A couple of CanLit authors get the high-visibility profile treatment today. The CBC Arts site has a Q&A with Vancouver's Anosh Irani, whose second novel, The Song of Kahunsha, has just come out with Doubleday ... Read More »
March 30, 2006 | Filed under: Industry news
Big news on the book-award front: sponsorship of the Whitbread Awards, the second-most prestigious book awards in Britain after the Man Booker, is up for grabs. A sponsor for the honours since their inception in ... Read More »
December 14, 2005 | Filed under: Awards, Industry news
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