The Giller Prize has announced its jury for the 2025 prize. Author and creative writing professor Dionne Irving will chair the jury for this year’s prize. She was shortlisted for the Giller in 2023 ...

The Kingston Writers Festival is no more. In a press release issued this month, the festival announced it was closing because of “mounting financial pressures,” caused in part by reduced attendance ...

I’m a book blogger. Recently, a writer emailed me to complain about a negative review I posted for his book. Specifically, he said that since he is a local author, my review was damaging to his ...

Second Story Press has a new owner and publisher. After decades at the helm, co-founder and publisher Margie Wolfe has transferred ownership of the Toronto-based feminist and social-justice-driven ...

When I look back at my early days as a writer, there’s one thing that I wish someone would have told me because I now see how it could have changed my life: Define success for yourself. I remember ...

CBC’s Canada Reads has released its longlist for this year’s battle of the books. The theme this year is books that change how we see, share and experience the world around us. The five panellists for ...

The last time I emailed Andrew Pyper it was to send a fan letter. I had spent part of the holiday break reading William, the novel he published last September under the pseudonym Mason Coile. Pyper ...

A six-book shortlist will be announced on March 25, with the winner to be named during the International Literature Festival Dublin on May 22.

In a statement posted to the Vancouver-based independent press's website earlier this week, publisher Rolf Maurer said he had made the "painful decision" to wind down the press's operations.