20+ hour, 55+ min ago  (124+ words) CBC Toronto romance author on audio and the female gaze Lily Chu explains how her audio-first novels centre women as agents with clear goals, and how immersive narration amplifies emotional nuance to reinforce the female gaze. Who created Toronto's stained…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago  (360+ words) Jen Sookfong Lee and Amanda Leduc are among the authors longlisted for the 2026 Sunburst Award for Excellence in Canadian Literature of the Fantastic. The award annually recognizes the best Canadian fantasy books. The winner will receive $3, 000. Lee was longlisted for…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago  (358+ words) Lee Lai's graphic novel Cannon has won the 2026 Doug Wright Award for best comic book. The Doug Wright Awards, named after the'influential Canadian cartoonist, annually celebrate excellence in comics across Canada, awarding four prizes "the best book award, the Nipper…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago  (410+ words) B. C. -based writer Maria Reva has won the 2026 Amazon First Novel Award for'Endling.' Presented by Amazon. ca and The Walrus, the $60, 000'prize recognizes the best debut Canadian novel of the year. ln'Endling, Yeva, a scientist, is obsessed with breeding rare snails…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago  (160+ words) American writer Julia Elliott wins $200 K Carol Shields Prize for Fiction CBC American writer Julia Elliott wins $200 K Carol Shields Prize for Fiction The prize is the largest recognizing women and nonbinary people in the world Image | Julia Elliott Hellions…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago  (127+ words) CBC 20 Robert Munsch titles are being translated into Indigenous languages For generations of Canadian kids, Robert Munsch stories have been a bedtime staple. Now, some of those beloved books are getting a Yukon twist. The Yukon Native Language Centre is…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago  (695+ words) Renato Gandia, Julia Cottrelle and Graham Slaughter were named the winners of this year's$10, 000 RBCBronwen Wallace Award for emerging Canadian writers. The prize recognizes emerging Canadian writers forpoetry, short fictionand, for the first time this year, creative nonfiction, who are…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago  (395+ words) American writer Julia Elliott has won the 2026 Carol Shields Prize for Fiction." The prize is open to English-language books published in the U. S. or Canada, including translations. Writers must be citizens or permanent residents of Canada or the U. S. The winner was…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago  (479+ words) Felicity D'Onofrio-Jones is a finalist in the 2026 First Page Student writing challenge in the Grades 10 to 12 category for the story The Best Time Machine. Students across Canada wrote the first page of a novel set 150 years in the future, imagining…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago  (503+ words) Colm T'ib'n's new work, The News from Dublin, puts the reader in the heads of many different types of people: a grieving lover, a bereaved mother, a desperate brother " and an Irish teacher who just got out of prison for…...