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.
Griffin Prize winner Jordan Abel takes the 2024 Governor General’s Award for English-language Fiction
M&S had a good day, also taking home the nonfiction prize in English.
Canisia Lubrin and Kent Monkman among five nominees for the Governor General’s Literary Awards
Also of note is the publication dates of these books, none of which was published after February 2024.
Poetic form gets exploded and reshaped in two recent volumes from River Halen and Otoniya J. Okot Bitek
The notion of making oneself "legible" to oneself and others is at the centre of Halen's project.
Running in the family: Jordan Abel’s multimedia, polyvalent memoir addresses issues of identity and cultural heritage in the face of intergenerational trauma
Griffin Poetry Prize winner Abel has crafted a cross-genre work that addresses questions of identity and the ways we are affected by past hurt.