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 ...

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 ...

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

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

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

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

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

Guess where I am calling you from?” I ask author David Chariandy, who is on the phone from his home in Vancouver, where he teaches at Simon Fraser University. David jokingly asks back, “Is it a few ...

As a kid, I was really into video games. I remember how powerfully addictive they were. If I wasn’t prone to motion sickness, I probably wouldn’t now be an artist because I would have fallen right ...

Arizona O’Neill’s newest work – the full-length graphic novel Opioids and Organs – emerged from a need to channel a family tragedy, a personal obsession, and almost a decade of research into what ...

One of the long-held concerns of the international disability community is that the non-disabled world prefers to keep disabled writers confined to a prescribed box wherein we write endlessly and ...