The study, commissioned by the Ontario Book Publishers Organization (OBPO) has found that the independent book publishing industry contributed $145 million to Ontario's GDP last year.

I rarely admit to writing poetry when talking to people I’ve just met. Asked what I do for a living during a night out with ...

For nearly as long as there have been podcasts, there have been podcasts about stories. Three recently launched podcasts take ...

The Quebec Writers’ Federation Literary Awards, which honour the best of English-language literature in Quebec, were ...

The atmosphere is smoky grey. Dark. Penumbra almost-dusk, but stripped of any colour,” writes Sofia Ajram in an early ...

Four years after the release of The Barnabus Project, the Fan Brothers have returned with another look into the fantastical ...

Maurice Vellekoop has won the 2024 Toronto Book Award for his graphic memoir I’m So Glad We Had This Time Together – the first graphic novel to win the prize. Vellekoop's book was one of five ...

Meagan Mahoney has always been a writer. After she published her debut, Meranda and the Legend of the Lake in 2023, she was reacquainted with where it all began. “My mom brought over some writing from ...

Poets Cassandra Myers (My’z) and Lisa Shen have been named the inaugural winners of the Lillian Allen Prize and the Lillian Allen Emerging Artist Prize. The prizes are worth $2,000 each and are ...

Brett Popplewell has won the 2024 Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction for his book Outsider: An Old Man, a Mountain, and the Search for a Hidden Past (Collins/HarperCollins). Popplewell was ...

Writer and University of Windsor librarian Heidi LM Jacobs has won the 2024 Ontario Speaker’s Book Award. Jacobs, who won for her book 1934: The Chatham Coloured All-Stars’ Barrier-Breaking Year ...

The Canada Council for the Arts has announced the 14 winners of the 2024 Governor General’s Literary Awards. Winning writers, illustrators, and translators receive $25,000, while publishers receive $3 ...