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The winner of the Indigenous Literature Award in each category will receive a $5,000 cash prize. The awards, sponsored by the Periodical Marketers of Canada, will be presented during First Nation ...
Nalo Hopkinson has won the $3,000 2025 Sunburst Award for Canadian Literature of the Fantastic — making her a three-time ...
Days after the Alberta government paused a controversial ministerial order that would have affected the books school libraries were able to make available to students this fall, Education Minister ...
The proposed $1.5 billion settlement would have seen authors or publishers receive $3,000 for each of an estimated 500,000 books.
One strand of fiction was important to me: younger writers from Quebec. Perhaps I was overly influenced by my two years at M&S viewing, even if from a distance, Quebec’s metaphorical coming of age.
"Things in the world at large feel pretty scary and upsetting these days. We felt that creating an inviting and joyful ...
The jury for this year’s award is comprised of literary agent Sam Hiyate, Trinidadian-Canadian author Sophie Jai, former Writers’ Trust executive director Don Oravec, Anishinaabe-kwe curator and ...
Omar El Akkad and Miriam Toews are among the five writers shortlisted for the 2025 Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction.
The new marketing initiative highlights the titles most anticipated by Canada’s indie bookstores for the fall 2025 season.
The thrum of The Next Act was a boon to Conor Kerr. Late in the autumn of 2023, the acclaimed poet and novelist began writing ...
The Alberta government has hit pause on a controversial ministerial order that would have affected the books school libraries were able to make available to students this fall.
I was sitting with friends in a small Toronto restaurant, just off Yorkville Avenue. This was back in the 1970s. And ...