Catherine Quaglia and Dana Corbett are not new to bookselling. But after decades of dreaming about owning their own ...

Lawyer and activist and author Michelle Good and children’s author Elizabeth MacLeod are among the literary and publishing world’s recently appointed Members of the Order of Canada for 2025. Governor ...

Jack Wang’s The Riveter unfolds as a haunting wartime epic destined for the Canadian canon. Josiah Chang yearns for Poppy Miller, yet discriminatory laws forbid their marriage. Choosing to prove his ...

In The Inquisitive Raven, volume two of the Richard Wagamese Storybook Collection, the ever curious Reuben learns an important lesson about self-acceptance after trying to soar like a bald eagle.

Gaspereau Press co-founders Andrew Steeves and Gary Dunfield have donated the full working archives of the press – from its inception to the present day – to their alma mater, Acadia University in ...

Celebrated author Thomas King has revealed he has no Indigenous ancestry. King was born and raised in California but has lived in Canada since moving to Alberta in 1980 to teach Indigenous studies at ...

Two writers have been shortlisted for the 2025 Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction. The finalists, announced on Nov. 7 by Wilfrid Laurier University, are both titles from indie publishers – ...

The Al Purdy A-frame Association and Eurithe Purdy has announced the jurors for the 2026 Purdy Poetry Prize. Last year’s prize winner, A.F. Moritz, and the inaugural winner, Sid Marty, will be joined ...

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Miki Sato is an illustrator who creates three-dimensional art using different materials and textures. Her work includes Snow Days, which was a finalist for the Elizabeth Mrazik-Cleaver Canadian ...

One former prize winner and two formerly shortlisted authors are among the five authors shortlisted for the 2025 Giller Prize. The winner of the $100,000 prize for fiction will be announced at an ...

Six books have been named finalists for the 2025 Lane Anderson Awards. The annual prize, created to bolster the writing of popular science, is administered by the Fitzhenry Family Foundation. Winners ...