A five-book shortlist for the $20,000 award will be announced in September, with the winner to be named at a ceremony on Nov. 10.

In a note to readers this month, the team behind the online publication celebrating Ontario's literary scene announced that, due to "successive reductions in grant funding," it would be unable to ...

In DerRic Starlight’s memoir, the Gemini Award–winning puppeteer and comedian is our guide to a world few would choose to ...

In the first of three preview instalments, Q&Q takes a look at forthcoming short fiction collections, graphic novels, and ...

Over the course of three instalments, Q&Q presents the young readers titles we’re most excited about this fall. This week’s ...

Becoming a mom was the catalyst. After graduating with a master of publishing from Simon Fraser University, Susan Pi set off ...

By: Q&Q Staff July 22nd, 2026 2:59 pm Filed under: Industry News, Personnel changes Tags: Groundwood Books, House of Anansi Press, Personnel changes ...

Margaret Laurence, the celebrated novelist and foundational figure of modern Canadian literature who brought Prairie life to ...

In 2016, Ian Thornton was walking through his downtown Toronto neighbourhood with his two small children. He wasn’t thinking ...

In 1941, the Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges published a story called “The Library of Babel” about an infinite and eternal library containing everything ever written, or that ever will be written, ...

As Spencer Books owner Sarah Lilleyman was finishing her second maternity leave in 2025, she decided it was time to hit pause on the corporate world and give becoming her own boss a try – not least ...