Greg Younging, the publisher of Theytus Books, the oldest Indigenous publishing house in Canada, passed away on May 3. The Penticton, B.C., press where he worked as managing editor from 1990 to 2004, ...
In this final instalment of the fall preview, Q&Q presents young adult novels and nonfiction titles. Last week’s instalment featured middle grade and graphic novels. The first instalment featured ...
As 2025 reaches its half-way mark, a look at the bestselling books from all Canadian authors and books from Canadian authors published by Canadian publishers at independent bookstores reveals an ...
Omar El Akkad and Miriam Toews are among the five writers shortlisted for the 2025 Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction. The $75,000 award, now in its 15th year, recognizes excellence in ...
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.
Kev Lambert doesn’t like to be placed in boxes. The Montreal-based author of 2022’s ferocious novel Querelle of Roberval and its newly translated follow-up, May Our Joy Endure (both books are ...
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 ...
It’s been just over 24 hours since parts of Ontario saw their first snowfall of the season, Courtney Summers’s corner of the province among them. But the scene out her window is far from Hallmark ...
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 ...
Thirty-one years after it was first awarded, the future of the Giller Prize is uncertain. Without stable funding, the Giller Foundation says the prize will be forced to end operations at the end of ...
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 ...
Lost in her favourite books, 11-year-old Lan can almost forget about how much she misses her mother and younger brother, both still in Việt Nam. Though books can’t quite make the basement apartment ...