In his 2024 nonfiction debut, Cosmic Wonder, uber-precocious B.C. high-schooler Nathan Hellner-Mestelman attempted to explain ...

In anticipation of Saturday’s event, Q&Q checked in with indie booksellers across the country to find out some of the ...

The Griffin Poetry Prize has announced a shortlist of five books for the 2024 prize. The shortlisted titles were selected ...

After more than two decades at its current location, Toronto’s oldest children’s bookstore, Mabel’s Fables, is moving. And ...

For half a century, independent press Brick Books has been publishing poetry – and nothing but poetry. Founded in 1975 by poets Don McKay and Stan Dragland, the press has focused exclusively on verse ...

Rakuten Kobo has released the shortlists for the 2025 Emerging Writer Prize. The prizes recognize exceptional books written by first-time Canadian authors in three categories: literary fiction, ...

A.F. Moritz has been awarded the second annual Al and Eurithe Purdy Poetry Prize. Moritz was awarded the prize for his 22nd ...

Nine writers have been named finalists for the 2025 RBC Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers. The award, established in 1994, grants $10,000 annually to a writer of fiction and poetry. This year ...

The winner of the Penguin Random House Canada Design Award will receive six one-hour mentorship sessions (virtual or in-person) over a period of six months with Penguin Random House Canada’s in-house ...

Thao Lam is known for her awe-inspiring textured paper collages. She is a widely celebrated author/illustrator whose books – Wallpaper and The Paper Boat: A Refugee Story – have been recognized by the ...

is a knife for every worship. Cut, the director calls, a curt way of unloving. But it is just the ooze of word. The living, who play hide-and-seek with death, are endlessly found — and the finding is ...

The COVID-19 pandemic, corporate governance, intimate partner violence, and the power of the courts are the topics examined by the five books shortlisted for the Donner Prize. The annual $60,000 prize ...