Canadian authors Dominique Fortier and Canisia Lubrin have been shortlisted for the 2025 Carol Shields Prize for Fiction. Canadian translator Rhonda Mullins is also on the shortlist for her ...

The winner of the $25,000 prize for political writing will be announced at the annual Politics and the Pen gala in Ottawa on ...

For many of us, hugs are part of everyday life. We hug our family, our friends, our pets, and depending on the circumstances, ...

A passionate reader and champion of Canadian literature, Lee went on to build literary organizations in Canada from the ...

It never really occurred to me to write a poetry book.” That’s how Terese Mason Pierre, the Toronto writer, editor, and workshop leader explains the genesis of her first collection. As poetry editor f ...

The shortlists for the 2025 Alberta Literary Awards have been announced by the Writers’ Guild of Alberta. The awards celebrate literary excellence by Alberta authors. Teresa Wong, Amy Lin, and Julie ...

Five books – most of them from small presses – have been shortlisted for the 2025 Al & Eurithe Purdy Poetry Prize. The ...

The bookmark initiative, launched by a group of independent Canadian publisher-distributers, gives booksellers a simple way ...

The finalists for this year’s Nova Scotia Book Awards and Atlantic Book Awards have been announced. The winners of both sets of awards will be announced at the Atlantic Book Festival later this spring ...

Literary marketing agency Zg Stories has a new name. The agency, which was founded by Zoe Grams a decade ago, will now be known as Serif. The name change is accompanied by a major internal change: ...