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October 01, 2018Contest! Get Personal with a Prize Pack of Auto-Fiction From Book*hug!
Not quite autobiography, not quite fiction: auto-fiction may be a new term to many, but it refers to a genre that's been beloved by readers and writers alike for decades, and which is getting a new life ...
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June 19, 2019Toronto Public Library & City of Toronto Announce 45th Annual Toronto Book Awards Longlist
Toronto is riding high right now as champion city. Just in time, the City of Toronto and the Toronto Public Library have given us a reason to keep on celebrating Toronto talent - off the court and on ...
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November 19, 2019Ian Williams Takes Home 2019 Scotiabank Giller Prize
Ian Williams, first-time novelist and author of Reproduction (Random House Canada), has won the 2019 Scotiabank Giller Prize.The $100,000 award was presented during a black-tie dinner and ceremony last ...
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June 03, 2017Kai Cheng Thom wins the 2017 Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBTQ Emerging Writers
Today in Vancouver, the Writers’ Trust of Canada announced that Kai Cheng Thom is the winner of the 2017 Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBTQ Emerging Writers. The $4,000 prize, unique in its focus on rewarding ...
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June 02, 2022Pik-Shuen Fung Wins 2022 Amazon Canada First Novel Award
It was a good night for Penguin Random House Canada's new Strange Light imprint last night, when Pik-Shuen Fung took home the 2022 Amazon Canada First Novel Award for Ghost Forest. The imprint identifies ...
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March 05, 2024Canada Reads 2024 Midweek Recap - Which Will be the One Book to Carry us Forward?
CBC's Canada Reads kicked off yesterday, and there has already been some stirring discussion and debate about the competing titles. There are three books that remain in the running to be crowned the ...
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June 21, 2016“I Want the Blur in There,” an Interview with Hoa Nguyen.
In his introduction to Red Juice (poems 1998-2008), Anselm Berrigan describes the poetry of Hoa Nguyen as, “sonic environments made word by word, provoked by lived experience into forms that, as she ...
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April 24, 2017
Margaret Christakos on Poetry Exercises
Today's feature on poets and writing exercises, the final in this series, is Margaret Christakos. She's the author of nine collections of poetry, including Multitudes (2013), Sooner (2005) and What Stirs ...
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August 02, 2017Gwaandak
This started off as a straightforward article about Gwaandak Theatre, Yukon’s only Indigenous theatre company. But something went wrong. Or right.I wanted to feature Gwaandak’s production, Map of ...
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November 14, 202330th Annual Scotiabank Giller Prize Awarded to Sarah Bernstein
Last night at a gala event in Toronto, Sarah Bernstein, a Montreal-born writer now based in Scotland, was named the winner of the 30th annual Scotiabank Giller Prize for her novel, Study for Obedience ...
