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Ian Williams aims to make sense of a racialized world in the essay collection Disorientation

The Canadian author and poet spoke to CBC Books about writing an essay collection about the role of race in Canada.

Canadian writers Suzanne Simard, Jessica J. Lee among Banff Mountain Book Award winners

The competition recognizes excellence in mountain literature from around the world.

Canadian culture and literature to be celebrated at 2021 Frankfurt Book Fair

The theme of Canada's Guest of Honour (GoH) program is chosen to reflect the diversity of Canada’s cultural landscape and to celebrate the singularity of the provinces and territories making up the country.

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, 2021.

Canadian historian Rebecca Clifford finalist for $75K Cundill History Prize

Forest of Reading

Here are the 2022 Silver Birch Express Award finalists: 10 great Canadian books for readers in Grades 3-4

'Astronauts are not thrillseekers': Chris Hadfield on fear, taking risks and writing his debut novel

Radio Q October 19

Writers retell Shakespeare's Tempest to explore colonialism and power

Radio Ideas October 19

Little Mosque on the Prairie creator Zarqa Nawaz publishing first novel, read an excerpt now

Jamie Foxx on his new memoir and the lessons he learned from his family

Radio Q October 19

Coalition expands access to books for young Indigenous children in SW Ontario

News Canada London October 20

When Tomson Highway found success with The Rez Sisters

Archives October 12

New exhibit revives Dial-a-Poem — a free poetry hotline once investigated by the FBI

Radio As It Happens October 21

Cape Breton artist writes, illustrates Canada's 1st Scottish Gaelic graphic novel

Cassidy Chisholm

News Canada Nova Scotia October 18

Unruly beasts and how to police them: Author examines the world of animal crime

Radio The Current October 18

Terry Fallis says writing fiction that's geared for laughs isn't as easy as you'd think

Ryan B. Patrick

New documentary series celebrating Canadian literature to air on CBC Gem

'This is a cautionary tale': Hillary Rodham Clinton & Louise Penny on writing an international thriller

Radio The Next Chapter October 15

How being disciplined helped CBC Short Story Prize juror Omar El Akkad write better short stories

Forest of Reading

Here are the 2022 Blue Spruce Award finalists: 10 great Canadian books for readers in kindergarten to Grade 2

Aimee Wall and Dani Jansen among finalists for Quebec Writers' Federation Literary Awards

Margaret Atwood & Omar El Akkad on dystopian hope

Radio Ideas October 13

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

Tomson Highway on Permanent Astonishment and his 'uniquely Canadian' childhood

Radio Q October 13

This 71-year-old writer's coming-of-age novel is a debut like no other

Radio As It Happens October 18

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