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.

The Banff Mountain Book Competition has announced its 2026 category award winners. Trina Moyles’s memoir Black Bear: A Story ...

This September, verse by British Columbia-based poets will be showing up on bus cards across the province for the 30th time. Poetry in Transit, which launched in 1996, is a project by BooksBC in ...

Helen Marshall has won the 2026 Sunburst Award for Excellence in Canadian Literature of the Fantastic for her novel The Lady, the Tiger and the Girl Who Loved Death (Titan Books). Marshall, an ...

Five writers have been named finalists for the 2026 Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction. The $75,000 award, now in its 16th year, recognizes excellence in literary nonfiction and is ...

The Association of Canadian Publishers (ACP) is extending the Certified Canadian Publisher program, first launched in October 2025, to all eligible professional Canadian-owned book publishers. The ...

A longlist of 15 books covering historical subjects ranging from artists who supported the American Revolution to the legacy of the Magdalene laundries in Ireland and the overlooked history of ...