TIFA announces Alana Wilcox as recipient of the 2023 Ivy Award
Wilcox will receive her award at this year's iteration of TIFA, on September 25.
Eleanor Catton and David Bergen are among the twelve writers on the 2023 Scotiabank Giller Prize longlist
Twelve titles in total made the 2023 longlist, which was culled from a record-setting 145 submissions.
Canadian writer Shashi Bhat on the jury for the 2024 Commonwealth Short Story Prize
Bhat's new collection is out from M&S in spring 2024.
Two Canadians shortlisted for the 2023 Griffin Prize; Scribner U.S. launches a poetry imprint
Iman Mersal and Susan Musgrave are featured on the five-book Griffin shortlist.
Five-year commitment from Scott Griffin boosts the Writers’ Trust poetry prize from $25,000 to $60,000
The award is presented to a Canadian poet in mid-career.
Griffin Poetry Prize reveals its 2023 longlist under new selection rules; only two original works by Canadian poets make the cut
Haida Gwaii poet Susan Musgrave is one of only two Canadian authors of original works on the ten-book longlist for...
Canadian award juries prioritize small presses, diverse authors on this year’s shortlists
Small presses and debut authors account for the bulk of the fifteen titles that appear on this year's shortlists.
Writers’ Trust Atwood Gibson fiction shortlist comprises entirely books from independent Canadian presses
Two collections of short fiction and two works in translation are represented on a list that spans the country from PEI to Alberta.
Griffin Poetry Prize incurs backlash after eliminating its dedicated category for Canadian poets
The elimination of the Canadian category makes it that much harder for domestic poets to access time in the spotlight.
Casey Plett will be everywhere in fall 2022 and spring 2023
Plett's own debut collection of short fiction, A Safe Girl to Love, is being reissued by her current publisher, Vancouver's Arsenal Pulp Press.