We're super happy to announce that we've got not one but two Governor General's Literary Award finalists: Joshua Whitehead's Jonny Appleseed in fiction, and Carys Cragg's Dead Reckoning in Non-Fiction!
Fighting for Space: How a Group of Drug Users Transformed One City's Struggle with Addiction, Travis Lupick's captivating history of harm reduction in Vancouver as an effective means of dealing with addiction, has been shortlisted for the Vancouver Book Award.
Lindsay Wong's memoir The Woo-Woo: How I Survived Ice Hockey, Drug Raids, Demons, and My Crazy Chinese Family is the subject of a Writers' Trust of Canada video, created in conjunction with The Woo-Woo being shortlisted for the Hilary Weston Writers' Trust of Canada Nonfiction Prize.
Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore talks to Jezebel about her acclaimed novel Sketchtasy:"The opposite of nostalgia is truth, so that’s what I’m reaching for with this book."
Gord Hill, author of The 500 Years of Resistance Comic Book, talks about his latest graphic title The Antifa Comic Book with Time.com.
Dina Del Bucchia is the author of the story collection Don't Tell Me What to Do as well as three collections of poetry: Coping with Emotions and Otters (Talonbooks, 2013), Blind Items (Insomiac Press, ...
Karen Love is an independent curator who was Director/Curator of Presentation House Gallery for seventeen years, during which time she oversaw countless exhibitions and publications, including three books ...
Eisha Marjara has written and directed several award-winning films, including the critically acclaimed NFB docudrama Desperately Seeking Helen, the witty and satirical The Incredible Shrinking Woman, ...
Brian Howell studied photography at Ryerson Polytechnical University in Toronto. Between freelance gigs, he works on various documentary projects. His work has been exhibited extensively in Canada, the ...
Stephen Osborne was born in Pangnirtung in 1947. In 2004 he was a recipient of the CBC Literary Award, the Vancouver Arts Award for Writing and Publishing, and the National Magazine Foundation Special ...