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32 writers make the 2020 CBC Poetry 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 Nov. 5, 2020.

CBC Literary Prizes October 29

13 spine-tingling Canadian reads to check out for Halloween

If you like horror, thriller, mystery or crime, there's a book on this list for you!

In Conversation

How writing a memoir helped celebrated poet Lorna Crozier cope with the loss of a beloved partner

The celebrated poet's memoir Through the Garden, about late partner Patrick Lane, is a finalist for the 2020 Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction.

Ryan B. Patrick

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.

13 Canadian books for kids and young adults to read this Halloween

Billy-Ray Belcourt's debut novel, A Minor Chorus, to be published in 2022

30 books to celebrate 30 years of Writers & Company

Memorial author Bryan Washington captures the quiet moments of modern family life and complicated relationship

Radio Q October 28

David A. Robertson will judge 2020 CBC First Page student writing challenge

Jann Arden shares her wisdom about the beauty of aging and learning from failure

Radio Q October 28

Beat poet Diane di Prima taught her kids to question authority and believe in their own creativity

Radio As It Happens October 27

Doctor who helped people meditate through pandemic fears diagnosed with stage 4 cancer

Radio The Current October 28

Canadian Eternity Martis's bestselling memoir They Said This Would Be Fun to be adapted to television

Three-time CBC Literary Prize winner Caroline Adderson shares how to write a great short story

Jesse Thistle among winners of 2020 High Plains Book Awards for memoir From the Ashes

The Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mandel longlisted for 2021 Andrew Carnegie Medal

The bestselling Canadian books for the week of Oct. 18-24, 2020

The exclusive world broadcast premiere of Deepa Mehta's Funny Boy is coming to CBC on December 4th

Arts October 27

Friends, colleagues remember celebrated New Brunswick writer Richard Vaughan

News Canada New Brunswick October 26

In Conversation

Lee Maracle is an oral storyteller first and foremost — that's been key to her storied writing career

Ryan B. Patrick

Ann Hui & Joe Thottungal among Taste Canada award winners, which recognize cookbooks and food writing

The Lost Spells conjures up the magic of everyday nature

Radio As It Happens October 26

IDEAS AFTERNOON

Feminist icon or elaborate hoax? The mystery of Louise Labé

Radio Ideas October 26

Canadian book in running 2020 Diagram Prize, which is given to the oddest book title of the year

Sheena Kamal writes fiction so she and others can feel seen

Radio The Next Chapter October 23

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