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Edit Your Writing with Empathy and Curiosity

Are you a writer? How do you feel about editing? If you’re like many writers you’ve probably just groaned or hissed at your screen. I get it—editing can feel like the most arduous thing about being ...

Announcing the Winners of the 2025 Trillium Book Awards!

The winners of the prestigious  Trillium Book Awards  have just been announced for 2025, with some fantastic established and emerging voices honored this year. This prestigious Award is the province’s ...

Read an Excerpt from The Road to Goderich by Linda McQuaig

Bestselling author and renowned journalist Linda McQuaig is back this summer with a gripping historical novel set against the backdrop of the 1837 Upper Canada Rebellion. It's an epic drama that will ...

Read an Excerpt From the Vibrant New Picture Book, Unnaturally Blue

Our featured title today is an enthralling, inventive picture book by two lauded artists. It's a story about finding your way back to yourself, where the text and art work beautifully to immerse the reader. Dorson ...

A Ragtag Group of Liberated Performers Face Down a Vicious Tyrant in SHOW

Prolific, award-winning author Shane Peacock turns his skills back to YA fiction this spring with a new novel that is as inventive as it is fitting for the world we're living in right at this very moment.Set ...

The Winner of the 2025 Amazon First Novel Award Has Been Revealed!

The winner of the 2025 Amazon First Novel Award is Valérie Bah, author of Subterrane (Esplanade Books/Véhicule Press), as revealed in yet another majestic CanLit event that took place at the spectacular ...

The Winner of the 2025 Griffin Poetry Prize Has Been Announced!

A very fancy and inspiring evening at the Griffin Poetry Prize awards has concluded, and Psyche Running by Karen Leeder (translated from the German written by Durs Grünbein) has won the 2025 edition ...

Jordana Globerman Makes a Stunning Debut with the Beautiful and Heady Graphic-Novel, Soul Machine

Comic book writer and illustrator Jordana Globerman makes a stunning debut this season with her new graphic novel, Soul Machine (Annick Press). It's a profound and stirring work that is being billed ...

Three Emerging Writers Win the 2025 Bronwen Wallace Awards

This evening at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto, three Bronwen Wallace Awards were handed out to some exciting emerging authors, in the categories of short fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction. Capping ...

Bindu Suresh's New Novel, The Road Between Us, is a Complex Lover’s Knot of a Novel that Spans Continents and Decades

Seasoned journalist Bindu Suresh has written hundreds of articles for various newspapers, and has a wealth of lived-in experience in unique cities around the world. All of which is on full display in ...