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June 23, 2021Canisia Lubrin & Valzhyna Mort Awarded 2021 Griffin Poetry Prizes
It is truly Canisia Lubrin's year. Her powerhouse poetry collection, The Dyzgraphxst (McClelland & Stewart Ltd.), has captured her yet another massive honour today: the Canadian Griffin Poetry Prize.The $65,000 ...
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January 12, 2022CBC Canada Reads Announces Star Studded 2022 Longlist
CBC Books has announced the 15-title mixed genre Canada Reads longlist for the 21st iteration of the popular debate literary show. The list includes memoir, short fiction, and novels, including recent ...
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May 04, 2022Writers' Trust Announces Fiction & Poetry Shortlists for 2022 RBC Bronwen Wallace Award
This morning the Writers’ Trust of Canada announced six finalists for the prestigious RBC Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers, with three nominated for the poetry award and three for the short ...
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February 08, 2024Read an Excerpt from Precedented Parroting by Acclaimed Poet Barbara Tran
Pushcart Prize winner Barbara Tran has seen her poetry published in some of the most formidable literary journals in the world, including The New Yorker, The Paris Review, and Ploughshares, and we're ...
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June 28, 2017The Toronto Public Library Shares Tips on How to Raise a Reader
While some kids are natural bookworms, others are more reluctant readers. Wherever your little ones fall in the spectrum, reading is one of the greatest gifts we can give to the young people in our lives. ...
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December 20, 2010Hermaphroditism and Literature
Kathleen Winter’s sumptuous, Giller-nominated Annabel, from House of Anansi, tackles the theme of hermaphroditism with gusto. Based on a true story, her book focuses on a child born in late-1960s Labrador, ...
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June 21, 2016Literary Prize News: Talented Authors Honoured in History, Poetry, LGBTQ Writing & More!
It's prize season in Canada, and a handful of incredible books have recently been honoured by a number of organizations. You'll want to check out the winners below when you're putting together your summer ...
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June 27, 2014Forget Cottage Country: 8 Reasons to Summer in the City of Toronto
School’s out and the Canada Day weekend is nigh, but that’s no reason to get out of town. Stay here, and enjoy these only-in-Toronto good things instead:1. Toronto IslandBike down to the ferry docks ...
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May 11, 2017
Kamal Al-Solaylee wins Shaughnessy Cohen Award for Political Writing for Brown
Yesterday at the iconic Fairmont Chateau Laurier in Ottawa, a crowded room full of politicians, authors, journalists, donors, and book lovers waited to see who would be the 2017 winner of the $25,000 ...
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May 07, 2019Writers' Trust Announces Finalists for 2019 Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBTQ Emerging Writers!
2019 Dayne Ogilvie nominees Joelle Barron, Lindsay Nixon, & Casey PlettIt's one of the only Canadian prizes celebrating LGBTQ writing, and it's honoured some of the most acclaimed writers in the ...
