Collins, who has been executive editor at Random House Canada since 2021, will be retiring in March 2026 after 27 years with Penguin Random House Canada.

Since winning the 2014 Burt Award for First Nations, Métis, and Inuit Literature for Tilly: A Story of Hope and Resilience, Cree-Lakota-Scottish writer Monique Gray Smith has published three ...

The finalists for the 2025 CCBC Book Awards have been announced. Handed out by the Canadian Children’s Book Centre, the seven awards celebrate exceptional books for young people.

Omar El Akkad and Miriam Toews are among the five writers shortlisted for the 2025 Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction. The $75,000 award, now in its 15th year, recognizes excellence in ...

Come around the campfire and let me tell you the tragic tale of what befell #OwnVoices. In 2014, Asian-American authors Ellen Oh and Malinda Lo started the diversity campaign #WeNeedDiverseBooks.

Kev Lambert doesn’t like to be placed in boxes. The Montreal-based author of 2022’s ferocious novel Querelle of Roberval and its newly translated follow-up, May Our Joy Endure (both books are ...

It’s been just over 24 hours since parts of Ontario saw their first snowfall of the season, Courtney Summers’s corner of the province among them. But the scene out her window is far from Hallmark ...

To explain the plot of Elaine McCluskey’s The Gift Child is both to give everything away and to reveal nothing important. Although the novel does, in the words of its narrator Harriett Swim, take us ...

Five books have been shortlisted for the 2024 Atwood Gibson Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize. This year, the Writers’ Trust has announced that the purse for the annual prize will rise to $70,000, with ...

Every Canadian knows the analogy about living next door to the United States: “like sleeping with an elephant,” we are “affected by every twitch and grunt.” The analogy may be well-worn, but the ...

Writer and historian Alison Li can trace her fascination with hormones to a rather gruesome origin: a biochem lab at the University of Calgary where, as an undergrad, she worked a few summers sawing ...

Your Nickel’s Worth Publishing for Tanning Moosehides: The Northern Saskatchewan Trapline Way by Tommy Bird, Lawrence Adam, Lena Adam, and Miriam Körner.