The Saskatchewan Book Awards were announced on May 1 at the 33rd Saskatchewan Book Awards Gala in Regina. The prizes honour excellence in writing and publishing, and include the City of Regina Book ...

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 ...

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

Six novelists have been shortlisted for the 2026 Amazon Canada First Novel Award. The Walrus and Amazon Canada announced the six-book shortlist on May 6. The annual $60,000 award recognizes the talent ...

Zurita and his translator, Anna Deeny Morales, will participate in the 2026 Griffin Poetry Prize Readings in Toronto on June ...

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 ...

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 ...

The recipients of this year’s awards for published work will be announced on June 21, National Indigenous Peoples Day.