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Amazon First Novel Award 2024 Shortlist Announced

Yesterday, Amazon Canada and The Walrus announced the shortlist for the forty-sixth annual Amazon Canada First Novel Award, which rewards the debut novel judged to be the finest of the year based on ...

May 10, 2024

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Jess Taylor Confronts and Then Says Goodbye to the Past in her Compelling Debut Novel

Memories of childhood, and the realities of what remains in the here and now, are twin prospects that everyone must face and contend with in their lives. Flights of imagination and acts of play often ...

May 09, 2024

In Crazy / Mad, AJ Dolman Challenges Poetic and Societal Norms, and Offers Hope

In this day and age, mental health, gender, sexuality, and other important social issues are acknowledged more than they were in the past. However, there is often little truly honest engagement with the ...

May 08, 2024

John Vaillant Wins the 2024 Writers' Trust Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing

The Writers’ Trust of Canada has awarded John Vaillant the $25,000 Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing for his book Fire Weather: The Making of a Beast (Knopf Canada). The award was ...

May 07, 2024

Wendy Orr Takes Readers to The Valley of Horses and Beyond in Her Newest Book

During the fraught and uncertain years of the COVID-19 pandemic, author Wendy Orr and her family found themselves in Australia, locked-down and away from family back in Canada. Worried about the ways ...

May 07, 2024