The awards recognize the best published work by authors from the Greater Hamilton Area and Six Nations of the Grand River.

Madeline Neill, who founded a family-run, independent bookstore mini-chain in the Greater Vancouver area, has died. She was 96.

Collins, who has been executive editor at Random House Canada since 2021, will be retiring in March 2026 after 27 years with Penguin Random House Canada.

Editor’s note: In its October issue, Q&Q ran a personal essay by Angie Abdou about the consultation process she undertook with the Ktunaxa Nation Council to include a Ktunaxa character in her new ...

In “Enough Trouble” from Casey Plett’s new fiction collection A Dream of a Woman, Gemma, “a professional drinker and a sloppy hooker,” couch-surfs her way back to her hometown. The unnamed city of ...

Finalists have been named for the 2025 B.C. and Yukon Book Prizes. The annual awards, now in their 41st year, are administered by the West Coast Book Prize Society and celebrate the achievements of ...

Jack David has told the origin story of ECW Press so many times he’s not even sure if it’s true anymore. In 1973, he was talking with some of his fellow grad students before a Canadian poetry class at ...

When working on their picture book, Be a Good Ancestor, sisters Leona Prince and Gabrielle Prince-Astrope grounded the text in the teachings they learned as children growing up in the Lake Babine ...

Over the course of three instalments, Q&Q presents the titles we’re most excited about this fall. This week’s final instalment features nonfiction. Fiction, short fiction, and poetry were featured in ...

What is a “Haida manga”? It’s been a decade and a half since Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas published the first book bearing this evocative epithet, and the landscape of graphic novels has continued to ...

Elie Wiesel, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, is also the author of dozens of books, the best-known of which is his 1955 memoir Night, about his experiences as a teenager in a Nazi concentration camp.

When Ashley Audrain worked in public relations, she wrote fiction on the side. But when she took the director of publicity position at Penguin Canada, where she worked until 2015, she gave up her ...