The five panellists for this year’s competition – and the books each panellist has chosen to champion – will be announced on Jan. 22.

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 ...

The finalists for the 2025 CCBC Book Awards have been announced. Handed out by the Canadian Children’s Book Centre, the seven awards celebrate exceptional books for young people.

To explain the plot of Elaine McCluskey’s The Gift Child is both to give everything away and to reveal nothing important. Although the novel does, in the words of its narrator Harriett Swim, take us ...

Come around the campfire and let me tell you the tragic tale of what befell #OwnVoices. In 2014, Asian-American authors Ellen Oh and Malinda Lo started the diversity campaign #WeNeedDiverseBooks.

Five books have been shortlisted for the 2024 Atwood Gibson Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize. This year, the Writers’ Trust has announced that the purse for the annual prize will rise to $70,000, with ...

Writer and historian Alison Li can trace her fascination with hormones to a rather gruesome origin: a biochem lab at the University of Calgary where, as an undergrad, she worked a few summers sawing ...

If you’ve noticed that Canadian children’s book authors and illustrators seem to be garnering a lot of attention lately, you’re not alone. International awards and recognition and a ton of buzz are ...

In the early 1940s, an anonymous patron commissioned Anaïs Nin and several of her literary chums to write erotica for a dollar a page. This man, who Nin referred to as The Collector, gave her the ...

Hugh Argylle is tired of being responsible. For family and friends. For the boxes of other people’s belongings he’s storing in his basement. For everything. The fiftyish protagonist of Marina Endicott ...

Former House of Anansi publisher Leigh Nash is starting a new independent press. Assembly Press plans to release its first list in spring 2024. Nash will be publisher of the new venture, with fellow ...