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Kate Beaton wins Harvey Award

Canadian cartoonist Kate Beaton has won her first Harvey Award for her entertaining history webcomic Hark! A Vagrant. Beaton took home the prize for Best Online Comics Work, a category in which she was nominated ... Read More »

August 23, 2011 | Filed under: Awards

2011 ReLit longlist revealed

By Sue Carter

The very long list of nominees for the 2011 ReLit Awards, which celebrates novels, poetry, and short fiction titles published by Canadian independent presses, has been announced. ECW Press leads this year's longlist with nine ... Read More »

August 8, 2011 | Filed under: Awards

Pick, Edugyan, deWitt make Booker longlist

By Natalie Samson

Three Canadian authors have made the 2011 Man Booker Prize for Fiction longlist, announced today. Alison Pick's Far to Go (House of Anansi Press, Q&Q's September 2010 cover profile), Esi Edugyan's Half-Blood Blues (forthcoming from ... Read More »

July 26, 2011 | Filed under: Book news

Writers’ Union of Canada sponsors book drive for Slave Lake Library

By Sue Carter

The Writers' Union of Canada is sponsoring a drive to replace books for the Slave Lake Library, which was destroyed during the devastating northern Alberta forest fires. The library still needs new titles, published within ... Read More »

July 13, 2011 | Filed under: Book news, Libraries

Event photos: London Book Fair Luau party

By Sue Carter

On July 5, approximately 80 people donned leis and Hawaiian shirts for the London Book Fair Luau to celebrate the ... Read More »

July 11, 2011 | Filed under: Book news

In the July/August issue of Q&Q: 2011 fall preview

By Sue Carter

The busy season for publishers has no shortage of big new releases, with novels from Ondaatje, Vanderhaeghe, and Endicott, the Massey Lectures from Adam Gopnik, and kids' books from Kenneth Oppel and Kit Pearson. In ... Read More »

June 30, 2011 | Filed under: Book news, Events, Preview

Publishing at the polls: federal parties respond to arts and culture questions

By Sue Carter

The Canadian Conference of the Arts sent leaders of the five federal parties a series of questions pertaining to arts and culture, and have posted the responses on its website. All of the parties responded, ... Read More »

April 19, 2011 | Filed under: Book news

Canadian literary event round-up: April 8-14

By Sue Carter

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

U.K. poets band together to protest cuts

By Steven W. Beattie

It's National Poetry Month here in Canada, an annual initiative by the League of Canadian Poets to bring public attention to poetry. But across the Atlantic, the beginning of April more closely resembles T.S. Eliot's ... Read More »

April 4, 2011 | Filed under: Book news

Canadian literary event round-up, March 11-17

By Sue Carter

Here are just a few literary/book events happening around the country in the next week: Author Steven Heine and poet Darren Bifford discuss the zen of Bob Dylan, March 12 (1:30 p.m., Alfred Dallaire Memoria, ... Read More »

March 11, 2011 | Filed under: Book news, Events

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Search Results by tag: YA

Kate Beaton wins Harvey Award

2011 ReLit longlist revealed

Pick, Edugyan, deWitt make Booker longlist

Writers’ Union of Canada sponsors book drive for Slave Lake Library

Event photos: London Book Fair Luau party

In the July/August issue of Q&Q: 2011 fall preview

Publishing at the polls: federal parties respond to arts and culture questions

Canadian literary event round-up: April 8-14

U.K. poets band together to protest cuts

Canadian literary event round-up, March 11-17

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