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Exclusive interview with author Jocelyn Parr, nominated for the International Dublin Literary Award

Exclusive interview with author Jocelyn Parr, nominated for the International Dublin Literary Award

Jocelyn Parr’s celebrated novel Uncertain Weights and Measures, winner of the 2017 Quebec Writers’ Federation Concordia University First Book Prize and shortlisted for the 2017 Governor General's...

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Jocelyn Parr’s Uncertain Weights and Measures Longlisted for International Dublin Literary Award

Jocelyn Parr’s Uncertain Weights and Measures Longlisted for International Dublin Literary Award

Jocelyn Parr’s celebrated novel, Uncertain Weights and Measures, has received yet another award nomination: the International Dublin Literary Award.

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All the Gold Hurts My Mouth wins the 2017 ReLit Award for Poetry

All the Gold Hurts My Mouth wins the 2017 ReLit Award for Poetry

July 16, 2018 – Ottawa poet Katherine Leyton has won the 2017 ReLit Award for Poetry, announced on Friday, July 13.

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Jan Wong’s APRON STRINGS Shortlisted for the 2018 Taste Canada Awards

Jan Wong’s APRON STRINGS Shortlisted for the 2018 Taste Canada Awards

Shortlisted for the twenty-first annual Taste Canada Awards in the Culinary Narratives category is award-winning journalist and bestselling author Jan Wong’s Apron Strings: Navigating Food...

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British Columbia Poet Emily Nilsen Wins the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award

British Columbia Poet Emily Nilsen Wins the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award

On Saturday, June 16, 2018, the League of Canadian Poets announced Emily Nilsen’s Otolith as the winner of the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award honouring a...

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Winnipeg Author Michael Kaan’s THE WATER BEETLES Wins Two Manitoba Book Awards, Including McNally Robinson Book of the Year Award

Winnipeg Author Michael Kaan’s THE WATER BEETLES Wins Two Manitoba Book Awards, Including McNally Robinson Book of the Year Award

On  Friday, June 15, 2018, at the 30th annual Manitoba Book Awards gala in Winnipeg, Michael Kaan was announced the winner of the Margaret Laurence...

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Michael Kaan’s THE WATER BEETLES Shortlisted for Three Manitoba Book Awards

Michael Kaan’s THE WATER BEETLES Shortlisted for Three Manitoba Book Awards

Winnipeg author Michael Kaan has been shortlisted for three Manitoba Book Awards: the Margaret Laurence Award for Fiction, the Eileen McTavish Sykes Award for Best...

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Michael Kaan Wins the 2018 Amazon Canada First Novel Award for THE WATER BEETLES

Michael Kaan Wins the 2018 Amazon Canada First Novel Award for THE WATER BEETLES

Michael Kaan has won the 2018 Amazon.ca First Novel Award for The Water Beetles. The $40,000 annual recognizes the best debut novels by Canadian writers.

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POWERED BY LOVE: A GRANDMOTHERS' MOVEMENT TO END AIDS IN AFRICA Wins the 2018 Best Atlantic Published Book Award

POWERED BY LOVE: A GRANDMOTHERS' MOVEMENT TO END AIDS IN AFRICA Wins the 2018 Best Atlantic Published Book Award

In recognition for its excellence in publishing, Powered by Love: A Grandmothers’ Movement to End AIDS in Africa has won the Atlantic Publishers Marketing Association’s...

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