The Griffin Poetry Prize will be hosting a town hall meeting later this month after asking for input on the prize’s format last month from the Canadian poetry community.

Five writers have been named finalists for the 2025 Danuta Gleed Literary Award. The prize, administered by the Writers’ Union of Canada, is awarded annually to three first collections of short ...

In this final instalment of the spring preview, Q&Q presents young adult and nonfiction titles. Last week’s instalment featured middle grade and graphic novels. The first instalment featured picture ...

Eight writers have been named recipients of the 2025 Indigenous Voices Awards for their unpublished work and eight more have been named finalists of the IVAs. The prizes, now in their ninth year, ...

It all started with the idea to launch a new magazine called OWL. Michael de Pencier, the co-founder of Key Publishers, ...

Five writers have been named to the Writers’ Trust of Canada 2026 Rising Stars cohort. Under the program, which was launched in 2019, five established authors each select a writer in the early stages ...

The judges for this year’s awards are Patrick Allaby, Aaron Costain, Kurtis Findlay, Jaleen Grove, Luiza Junqueira, Dylan ...

The Walrus and Amazon Canada announced the six-book shortlist on May 6. The annual $60,000 award recognizes the talent and contributions of debut Canadian novelists. Each finalist will receive $6,000, ...

Anyone who has studied Canadian history has likely seen a photograph of Louise de Kiriline Lawrence, even if unknowingly. She’s crouching in the background in one of the most famous images of the ...