The phone call was unexpected. Shortly after the launch of Swift Water Books, the first Indigenous children’s imprint within ...

The Alcuin Society has announced the winners of its annual competition for Awards for Excellence in Book Design in Canada.

Six books have been longlisted for the 2025 BMO Winterset Award. The annual $12,500 award celebrates excellence in Newfoundland and Labrador writing across all genres. Two finalists each receive ...

In Jon Claytor’s graphic novel Nowhere, a young boy finds himself stranded in Beauséjour, a small town that seems cursed with every manner of paranormal activity: zombies roam the streets at night, de ...

Canadian writers Jaime Burnet, Nina Dunic, Lee Lai, and Amanda Leduc are among the writers longlisted for the $150,000 (U.S.) award.

Pig in the City, the Olivia books, Charlotte’s Web: when it comes to stories featuring talking, performing, and travelling ...

Tom Flanagan, a professor of history at the University of Calgary, says First Nations? Second Thoughts “is bound to provoke some hostile reactions.” Declaring one’s martyrdom early – in this case, in ...

The Saskatchewan Book Awards has announced the shortlists for the 2026 literary and publishing prizes. The finalist in 13 categories, including the City of Regina Book Award and the City of Saskatoon ...

To read Lee Maracle’s My Conversations with Canadians and M. NourbeSe Philip’s Blank back-to-back is to confront the very real possibility that Martin Luther King Jr.’s belief in a moral universe ...

The title of John Ralston Saul’s newest book, A Fair Country, sounds like a rejected Liberal Party campaign slogan, but its contents are much more combative, provocative, and stimulating than anything ...

Over the course of three instalments, Q&Q presents the titles we’re most excited about this spring. This week’s instalment features novels. Short fiction and poetry titles will be featured next week, ...