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Low-Stress Yearly Reading Challenge Ideas

If you’re a reader with internet access, you’ve likely encountered yearly reading challenges and goals. The most common type of reading challenge is the “Read X Number of Books This Year” type, ...

The Griffin Poetry Prize Announces Its 2024 Longlist

This morning the Griffin Poetry Prize announced its 2024 longlist, in just the second year since the prize underwent major changes to open its eligibility to publishers worldwide, consolidating its ...

Get Cozy with Open Book: The Open Book Team on Our All-Time Coziest Reads

As the end of a busy year full of ups and downs approaches, we decided to focus on cozy comfort for our 2023 holiday feature – to share the books that bring us calm, comfort, and peace. We hope this ...

CBC Announced Canada Reads 2024 Longlist

Today CBC Books announced the 15-title longlist for the 23rd edition of their book competition show, Canada Reads, which will take place March 4-7. Five panellists will select a book to champion from ...

Mike Barnes on the Big Books in His Life, Including One Important "Thundering Masterpiece"

Mike Barnes is one of those rare writers who can do it all – in poetry, short fiction, novels, and memoir, he takes readers on nuanced, brainy, powerfully moving journeys. Fiercely intelligent yet consistently ...

6 Books That Impacted Adriana Chartrand, Author of the Acclaimed Debut An Ordinary Violence

Try as she might, nothing is quite right in Dawn's life. A young Indigenous woman eager to leave a city full of bad memories, she's moved to a new place to start over, but she's haunted by messages from ...

5 Authors Nominated for the $60,000 Atwood Gibson Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize

This morning the Writers’ Trust of Canada announced the five finalists for the 2023 Atwood Gibson Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize. The $60,000 award is one of my country's most prestigious, annually ...

The Griffin Prize Announces Its First Longlist Since Merging Into the World's Biggest Poetry Prize

This morning the Griffin Poetry Prize announced its 10-book 2023 longlist, its first since the prize underwent major changes to open its eligibility to publishers worldwide, consolidating its two previous ...

Canadian Writers and Publishers Share Their Literary Resolutions for 2023

We all know what a New Year's resolution is, but what about a literary resolution? We asked writers and publishers across the country to share their hopes and aspirations for 2023 in the realm of reading ...

Multi-Talented Writer & Artist John Brady McDonald Gets Personal About Music, Ghosts, & One Epic, Lost Cassette

John Brady McDonald can do just about anything he turns his hand to. An accomplished musician, speaker, author, and visual artist, he's also served as an activist and advocate for fellow residential ...