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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 ...

The Fragments that Remain Tells a Story of Love, Grief, and Hope Through One Young Person's Letters to a Lost Sibling

Uniquely told through letters and poems, our featured title today is a captivating YA story full of hope and heart. It is the debut novel from author and educator Mackenzie Angeconeb, balancing grief ...

Tim Welsh's Debut Novel, Ley Lines, is a Refreshing, Intimate Take on Frontier Life

Readers have seen frontier tales about the gold rush and mining boom towns before, many of which carry familiar tropes and trappings. But, our featured author today has written an original work that upends ...

Second 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 ...

The Key to Publishing a Book: Being a Staunch Celebrationist

Writing a book takes forever. Or, it does for me. I always think I’ll be able to crack the code for the next one, and write faster and be more efficient, but the reality is, it takes me five years to ...

Carolyn Ramzy Shares Profound Poetry About a Coptic Girlhood in Taslim: We Are the Prophets

Carolyn Ramzy's scholarly endeavours have taken her to a professorship in Ethnomusicology at Carleton University, where her main focus is on Egyptian Coptic Christian music-making. So it's no surprise ...