Mona Awad and Souvankham Thammavongsa appear on a Giller shortlist comprising 100% multinational titles
If Thammavongsa were to win the prize, she would be the first author since Esi Edudgyan to win with back-to-back books.
Canadian novelist David Szalay joins Kiran Desai and Andrew Miller on the shortlist for the 2025 Booker Prize
Also shortlisted this year is Kiran Desai for The Loneliness of Sunny and Sonia.
Otoniya J. Okot Bitek and Maria Reva land spots on the 2025 Atwood Gibson Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize shortlist
The shortlist was selected by a jury comprising writers Gary Barwin, Ali Bryan, and Jasmine Sealy.
Giller Prize reveals a bulked-up fourteen-book longlist while the final protester at the 2023 ceremony has charges dropped
For the second year in a row, the Giller is being judged by a three-person, all-Canadian jury.
Can the Giller be saved? Without an injection of funds, Canada’s glitziest literary prize may be forced to close at the end of the year
This is, to put it mildly, a difficult time for an arts organization to be chasing funding.
Canadian Chanel Sutherland wins the 2025 Commonwealth Short Story Prize
Sutherland says the structure of the story was "a risk" that arose out of her belief that "every enslaved person deserves to have their story told with dignity."
And then there were none: Griffin Poetry Prize unveils a five-book shortlist devoid of Canadians
If deep-pocketed institutions and organizations – and prizes – in this country aren't doing enough to support and elevate Canadian poetry, then it's up to the rest of us.
Americans dominate the Griffin Poetry Prize longlist amid threats of annexation from the U.S. government
Fully seven of the ten longlisted titles are published by American houses.
Giller Prize drops Scotiabank, loses two jurors
Two jurors – Jordan Abel and Aaron Tucker – have been quietly scrubbed from the Giller Prize website.
Sheung-King wins Atwood Gibson Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize for Batshit Seven; Martha Baillie takes nonfiction award
Sheung-King's win completes the trifecta for Penguin Random House Canada, which published each of the three big fiction prize winners this year.