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Carol Off among finalists for $60K Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction

The As It Happens host is one of five authors vying for one of the richest awards for nonfiction in Canada.
CBC Literary Prizes

Becky Blake wins the 2017 CBC Nonfiction Prize

Blake will receive $6,000 from the Canada Council for the Arts and a 10-day writing residency at the Banff Centre. Her story will be published in Air Canada enRoute magazine and on CBC Books.
Dionne Codrington
CBC Literary Prizes

Cherie Dimaline's YA novel The Marrow Thieves nominated for $50K U.S. prize

Dimaline, along with Canadians Elisa Amado and Madeleine Stratford, are 2017 finalists in the Kirkus Prize's young readers' literature category.

Enter the 2018 CBC Short Story Prize

You could win $6,000, attend a 10-day writing residency at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity and have your story published on CBC Books.
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Helen Humphreys delves into the history of the apple in North America

Jane van Koeverden

David Chariandy, Eden Robinson and Michael Redhill among authors longlisted for 2017 Scotiabank Giller Prize

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The Handmaid's Tale wins Emmy for best drama series

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Gisèle Villeneuve wins Alberta Book Publishing Award for collection of short stories

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The Sunday Edition

There is no such thing as the 'white race' — or any other race, says historian

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How The Room's Greg Sestero turned the worst movie ever made into a buzz-worthy blockbuster

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Why Jessica J. Lee sees swimming as a catalyst for emotional change and acceptance of fear

Radio The Next Chapter
The Sunday Edition

A scathing indictment of Canada's prisons, after 30 years working 'down inside'

Radio The Sunday Edition
The Current

How autistic savant Daniel Tammet sees language

Writers & Company

Kei Miller maps the intersections of race, class and privilege in Jamaica

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Why Terry O'Reilly keeps coming back to Robertson Davies' Fifth Business

Radio The Next Chapter

7 books that inspired Emmy-nominated movies and series

CBC Books

Duncan McCue, Rajiv Surendra & Sonja Larsen nominated for Edna Staebler Award

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How I Wrote It

How Alison Pick keeps it real when writing historical fiction

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The Next Chapter

Durga Chew-Bose on examining what it means to be a daughter

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Anne and Gilbert, please meet Anne and Gilbert

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News PEI

11 books you heard about on CBC Radio this week: Sept. 9-15, 2017

CBC Books

Should high school reading lists be more relevant to today's kids?

Radio Cross Country Checkup
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Richard Wagamese's Indian Horse shocked and inspired this director to bring it to the big screen

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'Ol' fashioned Ind'en magic': Ryan McMahon calls Son of a Trickster a must-read

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