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Writers' Trust announces 2016 Hilary Weston Prize for Nonfiction Shortlist

“The best non-fiction writing offers a window on other lives, other times, and other worlds.” That window is opening a little wider today with the announcement of the 2016 Hilary Weston Writers' ...

#WritingTips Mondays: Rebecca Solnit – "It Takes Time"

Activist and writer Rebecca Solnit has written a whopping 17 books, in addition to publishing essays in the most prestigious journals and magazines in the world. A Guggenheim Fellow (amongst her many ...

Most Anticipated Books of 2017, Part 1

Some of my favourite writers have new books coming out next year, and I’m so incredibly excited to read them. I had a chance this week to interview Rebecca Rosenblum, about her new novel, So Much Love, ...

The WAR Interview Series: Writers as Readers with Kate Sutherland

Kate Sutherland can do it all – she's a lawyer, a scholar, a prose writer, and now she is adding poet to her list of achievements. Her debut collection, How to Draw a Rhinoceros (BookThug), is suitably ...

At the Desk: Nora Gould

Nora Gould's newest collection of poetry, Selah (Brick Books), is a long poem that engages with the titular term. Drawn from the Old Testament, 'selah' might mean to praise, to lift up, to pause, to ...

For All the Men...A Playlist

Hi Open Book Readers,Music has always been a huge part of my writing process.It helps me tremendously when it comes to entering the mind of a character, or an experience, and staying there for as long ...

The Word On The Street Interview Series: Michael Fraser

After a summer full of great reads, we're now firmly into the fall book prize and festival season. But it just doesn't feel like fall until our favourite outdoor festival kicks things off with bbq'd corn, ...

The Writers' Trust Announces Intriguing and Unexpected Shortlist for $25,000 Rogers Fiction Prize

We're now firmly in literary prize season, and the lists are coming thick and fast. The second of the three big annual fiction lists was announced today by the Writers' Trust of Canada — the venerable ...

The Joys of Being on Book Tour

Hi Open Book Readers,I really love touring. I love doing readings, and I try to do as many as I can.
 So far, for For All the Men (and Some of the Women) I’ve Known, I’ve read at Resonance Reading ...

New Fall 2016 Children's and YA Books! Part 1

I’m delighted to be starting off my kid lit blog this season with a fun chat with five authors of exciting hot-off-the-press children’s books, including a picture book, a chapter book, a middle grade ...