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Writers' Trust of Canada renaming fiction prize after Margaret Atwood and Graeme Gibson

The Atwood Gibson Writers' Trust Fiction Prize will award $60,000 to the year's best work of fiction.

New Malcolm Gladwell book about relationship technology and ideology in wartime coming in April

The Bomber Mafia will be available on April 27, 2021. The audiobook version will feature archival tape and include original interviews.

Olympian Andre De Grasse writing motivational picture book for kids

Race With Me! will be published by Scholastic Canada in both English and French. It will be released on July 6, 2021.

Souvankham Thammavongsa nominated for National Book Critics Circle Award for How to Pronounce Knife

The American awards recognize the best literature in six categories: autobiography, biography, criticism, fiction, nonfiction and poetry. The winners will be announced on March 25, 2021.

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December 31, 2020

Meet the Canada Reads 2021 contenders

Canada Reads January 14

Silver Donald Cameron's Blood in the Water to be adapted to screen by Trailer Park Boys co-creator

The bestselling Canadian books for the week of Jan. 17-23, 2021

C.L. Polk's fantasy novel The Midnight Bargain explores love and magic — and now it's on Canada Reads

Radio The Next Chapter January 22

30 years of Writers & Company: 5 inspiring people who changed how we see the world

Radio Writers & Company January 23

How writers are turning H.P. Lovecraft's racist work on its head

Radio Ideas January 22

Kaleb Dahlgren, Humboldt crash survivor, shares his message of hope in new memoir

New book documents stories of Gwich'in elders

News Canada North January 23

The youngest poet to read at a U.S. presidential inauguration had dreams of this day

News World January 21

Devery Jacobs' Canada Reads novel Jonny Appleseed is a 'love letter' to Indigiqueer and 2-spirit people

Canada Reads January 21

Angela Misri's The Detective and the Spy features a budding detective who's related to Sherlock Holmes

Radio The Next Chapter January 22

Paul Sun-Hyung Lee is looking forward to 'making reading cool' on Canada Reads

Canada Reads January 21

Proust Questionnaire

Shari Lapena hated being a lawyer — but being a bestselling thriller writer suits her just fine

Radio The Next Chapter January 22

Scott Helman is ready to champion Two Trees Make a Forest on Canada Reads

Canada Reads January 21

Like This? Love That

Ryan B. Patrick says if you liked Luster by Raven Leilani, you'll love Reproduction by Ian Williams

Radio The Next Chapter January 22

Rosey Edeh plans to channel the competitive drive that made her an Olympian for Canada Reads

Canada Reads January 21

A.J. Devlin's mystery series stars a former pro wrestler who is now a detective

Radio The Next Chapter January 22

Roger Mooking thinks Canada Reads will be like 'Reading Rainbow Gladiator'

Canada Reads January 21

Dog-Eared Reads

Trudy J. Morgan-Cole feels Dorothy L. Sayers' Gaudy Night is a must-read for classic mystery buffs

Radio The Next Chapter January 22

James Baldwin: a 'poet-prophet' in good times and in bad

Radio Ideas January 21

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