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B.C. writer Jonathan Poh wins 2020 CBC Nonfiction Prize

Jonathan Poh will receive $6,000 from the Canada Council for the Arts and a two-week writing residency at the Banff Centre. Read his winning story now.

CBC Literary Prizes October 1

Lorna Crozier & Tessa McWatt among finalists for $60K Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction

The annual prize recognizes the best in Canadian nonfiction. It is the largest prize for nonfiction in Canada.

Facing terminal cancer diagnosis pushed CBC Nonfiction Prize finalist Amy MacRae to find her voice as a writer

The late writer’s husband, Garreth MacRae, spoke to North by Northwest host Sheryl MacKay about his wife’s CBC Nonfiction Prize shortlisted story, Take a Photo Before I Leave You.

CBC Literary Prizes September 30

Enter the CBC Short Story 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 Oct. 31, 2020.

Francesca Ekwuyasi explored food and forgiveness in her first book — and was longlisted for the Giller Prize

Ryan B. Patrick

Fall Book Preview

15 Canadian comics coming out in fall 2020

Phyllis Webstad reflects on inspiring Orange Shirt Day and starting a movement

Radio The Next Chapter September 30

Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale among 100 most challenged books in U.S. in the past decade

Thomas King's latest novel was inspired by an eventful trip to Europe

Radio The Next Chapter September 25

Canada Reads winner Samra Habib to host series exploring Khaled Hosseini's novel A Thousand Splendid Suns

In Conversation

Julie Flett is reclaiming Indigenous themes of community and language through her children's books

Ryan B. Patrick

Chinatown couture: Stylish B.C. seniors featured in new coffee table fashion book

Bridgette Watson

News Canada British Columbia September 26

Drew Hayden Taylor & Clayton Gauthier win 2020 PMC Indigenous Literature Awards

How food becomes the 'punctuation between all the talking' in Francesca Ekwuyasi's debut novel

Radio The Sunday Magazine September 28

Banning a book: Why the freedom to read can't be taken for granted

News Canada Nfld. & Labrador September 27

Steve Patterson, host of CBC Radio's The Debaters, writing book about parenthood in modern times

Emma Donoghue 'spooked' by overlapping narratives between her new novel and COVID-19

Radio White Coat Black Art September 28

Annahid Dashtgard shares how she faced discrimination, racism and trauma in her memoir Breaking the Ocean

Ryan B. Patrick

Christa Couture's memoir about loss, strength, music, hope — and more loss

Radio Day 6 September 28

Mira Nair's adaptation of A Suitable Boy looks at family and political tensions in post-partition India

Radio Writers & Company September 25

Canadian actor Grace Dove on Monkey Beach and reclaiming Indigenous identity in Hollywood

Radio Day 6 September 26

Five ways the universe might die — including one that could happen at any time

Radio Quirks & Quarks September 28

5 writers make the 2020 CBC Nonfiction Prize shortlist

CBC Literary Prizes September 24

Old typewriters see 'tremendous resurgence' as writers unplug

Ashleigh Mattern

News Canada Saskatoon September 23, 2019

Fall Book Preview

37 Canadian poetry collections to watch for in fall 2020

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