Skip to Main Content

Featured Content

2017 edition of Turtle Island Reads celebrates the best in Indigenous Canadian writing

Indigenous authors and stories took centre stage Wednesday night with the 2nd annual edition of Turtle Island Reads.
News Montreal

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.
Erin Balser
How I Wrote It

Adam Gopnik on why memoir writing is an audacious act

The author of At The Strangers' Gate talks about his writing process.
Ryan B. Patrick

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.

The bestselling books in Canada: Sept. 10-16, 2017

CBC Books

Past winner David Huebert shares 5 reasons to enter the CBC Short Story Prize

Chloe Shantz-Hilkes
CBC Literary Prizes
Writing Tip

Is distraction a problem? Stay focused

Dionne Codrington
Canada Writes
Point of View

Do the write thing: A code of conduct for attending literary festivals

Catherine Hernandez
Arts
CBC Literary Prizes

Becky Blake wins the 2017 CBC Nonfiction Prize

Dionne Codrington
CBC Literary Prizes

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

My Life in Books

6 books that inspired Ron Sexsmith

Jane van Koeverden

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

Erin Balser

The Handmaid's Tale wins Emmy for best drama series

News Entertainment

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

CBC Books
The Sunday Edition

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

Radio The Sunday Edition
Day 6

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

Radio Day 6
The Next Chapter

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

Radio Writers & Company
The Next Chapter

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

Jane van Koeverden
How I Wrote It

How Alison Pick keeps it real when writing historical fiction

Ryan B. Patrick

Follow CBC Books

books Series