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.
Canadian stakeholders react to Judge Florence Pan’s ruling to block the merger of Penguin Random House and Simon & Schuster
“We depend on a robust Canadian-owned sector competing well with regulated multinationals," says Rhea Tregebov, chair of The Writers' Union of Canada.
U.S. judge Florence Pan rules against publishers in decision blocking the merger between Penguin Random House and Simon & Schuster
The U.S. Department of Justice called the ruling "a victory for authors, readers, and the free exchange of ideas."
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.
Haters gonna hate: Elon Musk completes Twitter acquisition amid concerns about unfettered hate speech proliferating on social media platform
It's too early to determine what exactly Musk will do with the platform, though early signs are not encouraging.
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.
Co-authors of a Liz Truss bio forced to rewrite the final chapters after the book’s subject resigns as PM
Labour leader Kier Starmer noted the book will be out by Christmas and asked, "Is that the release date or the title?"