The Canada Council for the Arts has announced the finalists for this year’s Governor General’s Literary Awards. Among the authors shortlisted for this year’s English-language prizes are Kim Fu, Kai ...

Despite receiving word earlier this year that its transit partner in Vancouver would be unable to secure funding for the Poetry in Transit program moving forward, BooksBC announced this week that the ...

The 2026 winners of the Taste Canada Awards / Les Lauréats des Saveurs du Canada were announced in Toronto on Oct. 25. The ...

On October 26, the Canadian Children’s Book Centre (CCBC) announced the winners of the 2026 CCBC Book Awards at a ceremony ...

Robert McCullough, who created the Appetite imprint focused exclusively on food and lifestyle publishing within what was then Random House Canada, is set to retire after 15 years with the company.

Princeton University professor Beth Lew-Williams has won the 2026 Cundill History Prize. The $75,000 (U.S.) prize, administered by McGill University, is awarded annually to a book published in English ...

The Banff Mountain Book Competition has announced its 2026 category award winners. Trina Moyles’s memoir Black Bear: A Story of Siblinghood and Survival is the winner of the environmental literature ...

The Quebec Writers’ Federationtion (QWF) has announced a new literary translation mentorship program it is launching together with the Literary Translators Association of Canada (LTAC) and the Union ...

Jillian Tamaki is a cartoonist and illustrator who has published comics, picture books, and adult and young adult graphic novels, among them SKIM and This One Summer, which was co-created with her ...

Meneka Repka is an illustrator based in Victoria, British Columbia. She holds a PhD in curriculum and learning, an MA in art education, a BEd in education, and a BFA in drawing. In January 2022, Repka ...