A new online resource is bringing more than 800 accessible ebooks from Alberta to readers. Accessible Alberta: eBooks for Everyone, launched this week by the Book Publishers' Association of Alberta (BPAA), is touted as the ... Read More »
Naomi Klein has been shortlisted for the inaugural Women’s Prize for Non-fiction. The £30,000 ($50,900 CAD) award was established by the Women’s Prize Trust in 2023 to honour exceptional nonfiction written by women. Books written ... Read More »
Simon & Schuster Canada has a new president and publisher. Nicole Winstanley will report to Simon & Schuster President & CEO Jonathan Karp, and she will also serve on S&S’s executive committee. Her first day ... Read More »
Shop Talk is an occasional feature in which fledgling independent booksellers take Q&Q into their stores and share their reasons for opening and what business has been like so far. Raven's End Books: The Horror ... Read More »
The Lantern and the Night Moths is an exceptional book of translations and literary criticism by poet-translator Yilin Wang. Wang’s original translations of five Chinese poets and her accompanying essays (one per poet) make for ... Read More »
AI and Literacy at the Tsuut’ina Nation I am DerRic Starlight and I am from the Tsuut’ina Nation. My mother is from the Blood Tribe, the Kainai Nation, so I am half Dene and half ... Read More »
Trees are treated with reverence in many world religions. In Islam, planting trees, which provide shelter and food to all living beings, is seen as an act of charity. In Hinduism and Buddhism, trees are ... Read More »
Canadian novelists Emma Donoghue and Suzette Mayr have been shortlisted for the 2024 Dublin Literary Award. The annual award celebrates excellence in world literature, and the winner receives a €100,000 prize ($147,000 CAD). Books are ... Read More »
The biennial Kobzar Book Award has been awarded to Ghosts in a Photograph: A Chronicle by Myrna Kostash. The $25,000 prize, sponsored by the Ukrainian Canadian Foundation of Taras Shevchenko, recognizes outstanding contributions to Canadian ... Read More »