Saeed Teebi helps put U of T’s School of Continuing Studies on the CanLit prize map
"The more conscious you are, the more intentional you are about writing, the better you understand why your own stories work or don't," Teebi says.
Novelist and true crime author Rebecca Godfrey dead from complications due to cancer at age 54
Godfrey, who succumbed to complications from lung cancer, was "an extraordinary ... writer whose voice was clean, crisp, and daring on every page."
Get smart: John Lorinc and Josh O’Kane examine the limits of smart city technology and Sidewalk Labs’s disastrous Toronto experiment
Taken together, Dream States and Sideways comprise a particularly incisive look at the theory and practice of smart cities.
In White Resin, Quebec author Audrée Wilhelmy subverts and reimagines classic CanLit tropes
White Resin restores a vision of the Canadian wilderness more in line with Indigenous ideas of a mutually dependent relationship between humanity and the natural environment.
Annie Gibson tells PW about the ongoing success of Playwrights Canada Press, making it through the pandemic, and the importance of drama publishing
One of the innovations made by the publisher during the Covid-19 pandemic is the establishment of an editorial committee to seek out new work.
Harold R. Johnson and Tomson Highway invoke Indigenous knowledge and the Trickster figure in books that seek to recapture connection to the land and ourselves
The two Indigenous authors offer different ways of thinking about the stories we tell ourselves and providing suggestions for how to rewrite those stories to our benefit.
Faith and family are central to Wayne Johnston’s new memoir of growing up sickly in rural Newfoundland
The twin poles of scientific reason and religious faith animate this vibrant and surprisingly funny memoir.
Montreal-based writer Cassandra Khaw combines lyricism and brevity in short works of horror and dark fantasy
When Khaw is at their best, their writing has teeth – blackened, razor sharp, and ready to rend flesh.
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.
Peter Robinson, bestselling author of the Inspector Banks mystery series, dead at age 72
The multiple award winning author was best known for his novels featuring English detective Alan Banks.