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May 16, 2025Scholar Cheryl Thompson Unpacks a Crucial Part of our National History in Canada and the Blackface Atlantic
While most Canadians tend to think that the legacy of racism and slavery that forms so much of United States history is separate from ours, there is a far deeper connection that is often ignored. From ...
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September 06, 2023Scotiabank Giller Prize Announces 12-Title Longlist for 30th Anniversary Year
This morning, the Scotiabank Giller Prize announced their 12-title longlist for the 2023 award, which marks the 30th anniversary of the prestigious honour, widely considered to be the most influential ...
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September 06, 2022Scotiabank Giller Prize Announces 14-Book 2022 Longlist for $100,000 Award
This morning during a Facebook livestream, the Scotiabank Giller Prize announced its 2022 14-book longlist.Hosted by 2021 winner Omar el Akkad, the ceremony thanked judges Kaie Kellough, Katie Kitamura, ...
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September 07, 2016Scotiabank Giller Prize Announces a Powerful Longlist for 2016
The Scotiabank Giller Prize remains as the titan of fiction prizes in Canada, with readers and industry followers alike awaiting the long- and shortlists every year with bated breath.This year's list ...
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September 08, 2021Scotiabank Giller Prize Longlist Announced, including Writer-in-Residence Angélique Lalonde's Debut Collection
It's a nerve-wracking and exciting morning for writers and publishers across the country as the Scotiabank Giller Prize announces their 2021 longlist. The 12-title list is a nod to the books that will ...
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September 17, 2018Scotiabank Giller Prize Names 12 Title Longlist: Familiar Faces, Debuts & More
The Scotiabank Giller Prize, the $100,000 fiction prize that honours the finest in Canadian prose each year and dominates the literary landscape in Canada, has announced its 2018 12-title longlist.The ...
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October 11, 2023Scotiabank Giller Prize Reveals Shortlist of Heavy Hitters for 30th Anniversary
This morning the Scotiabank Giller Prize announced their five book 2023 shortlist via Facebook livestream. Whittled down from the 12-title longlist, the shortlist is packed with highly decorated writers, ...
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July 19, 2018Scott Thornley Introduces Your New Favourite Detective Series
Lovers of mystery and detective fiction have a new a favourite to discover in Detective Superintendent MacNeice, the protagonist of Scott Thornley's Erasing Memory (House of Anansi Press). The story ...
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November 09, 2020
Screenwriting Lessons
Sometimes I forget that I majored in screenwriting during my undergrad, even though it ended up playing a key part in what and how I write now. I had chosen this major because I wasn’t sure what to ...
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May 27, 2025Second Story Press Reveals an Exciting New Logo on the Heels of Ownership Transfer
At the start of the year we shared the news that OBPO member publisher Second Story Press would have a transfer in ownership, with long-serving Co-Founder Margie Wolfe handing over the reins to General ...