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33 writers make the 2021 CBC Short Story Prize longlist

The winner will receive $6,000, attend a two-week writing residency and have their work published on CBC Books. The shortlist will be revealed on April 22, 2021.

CBC Literary Prizes April 14

New memoir writing award created to honour past CBC Nonfiction Prize finalist Amy MacRae

The International Amy MacRae Memorial Award is for an original, unpublished personal essay. The winner will receive $1,000 US and a $1,000 US discount to a writing retreat in France.

Canisia Lubrin, Joseph Dandurand and Yusuf Saadi shortlisted for $65K Griffin Poetry Prize

Poets Canisia Lubrin, Joseph Dandurand and Yusuf Saadi are the Canadian finalists for the 2021 Griffin Poetry Prize.

Enter the CBC Poetry Prize now

You could win $6,000 from the Canada Council for the Arts, attend a two-week writing residency at the Banff Centre and have your work published on CBC Books. Enter by May 31, 2021.

See the cover of Louise Penny and Hillary Clinton's thriller State of Terror

Sophie McGowan, Caris Simmons win The First Page student writing challenge

Bestselling poet Rupi Kaur releasing on-demand poetry performance film on April 30

The bestselling Canadian books for the week of April 4-10, 2021

Soaring sales at Vancouver's independent bookstores is one of the pandemic's good-news stories

News Canada British Columbia April 12

Tanya Boteju's YA novel Bruised explores the bold and beautiful world of roller derby

Radio The Next Chapter April 9

Michael DeForge and Walter Scott among finalists for 2021 Doug Wright Awards for Canadian comics

Bertrand Bickersteth and Will Ferguson among writers shortlisted for 2021 Alberta Literary Awards

Dolly Parton sends greetings to P.E.I. as Island joins free book program

News Canada PEI April 12

40 books shortlisted for 2019 ReLit Awards

Basil and Kevin Sylvester's middle-grade novel The Fabulous Zed Watson! is about tween fun and friendship

Radio The Next Chapter April 9

In Dostoevsky in Love, Alex Christofi captures the tortured brilliance of the great Russian writer

Radio Writers & Company April 10

Canadian poet Lorna Crozier on love, loss and gardening

Radio The Sunday Magazine April 12

Ian Williams, Canisia Lubrin among writers longlisted for 2021 League of Canadian Poets awards

Martin West, Daniel Zomparelli and Rhonda Ganz win 2018 ReLit Awards

What ancient cultures can teach us about parenting

Radio The Sunday Magazine April 12

Michelle Good, Billy-Ray Belcourt among 2021 BC and Yukon Book Prize finalists

Angie Abdou's memoir This One Wild Life celebrates the power of parent-child bonding

Radio The Next Chapter April 9

Jael Richardson's book pick: The Shadow List by Jen Sookfong Lee

Radio Q April 7

Read an excerpt and see the cover of Beverley McLachlin's upcoming thriller Denial

Like This? Love That

Aparita Bhandari feels The Silence of Bones by June Hur is a must-read if you loved this Steph Cha novel

Radio The Next Chapter April 9

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