John Vaillant and L. E. Carmichael and Byron Eggenschwiler were named winners of the 2024 Lane Anderson Awards for Canadian science writing on January 29 at the North York Public Library in Toronto.

June Hur, Alexis Stefanovich-Thomson, and Margaret Atwood are among the nominees for the Mystery Writers of America’s 2025 Edgar Allan Poe Awards. The shortlists were announced on Jan. 22.

If you own a device and connect to a cellular service anywhere in the world, you’re trackable.” That’s the sobering assessment of Ronald J. Deibert, someone who knows whereof he speaks. As the founder ...

Sharada Eswar makes her literary debut with a delightful collection of folk tales. Raised in Tamilnadu, India, Eswar is a writer, storyteller, singer, and arts educator based in Brampton. She is also ...

Author David A. Robertson and illustrator Josée Bisaillon have been nominated for the 2026 Hans Christian Andersen Awards. Known as the “little Nobel,” the biennial awards were established in 1956 to ...

Morton (Morty) Mint was born and raised in Montreal. After graduation from McGill University, he moved to Toronto and entered the world of book publishing. He rose in the ranks to become President and ...

During his final days, Peter Unwin’s father talked a great deal about sports. Through an oxygen mask, one eye blind from a stroke, he told stories about “the buffoonery of men, brave but foolish men ...

As founder and executive director of the Festival of Literary Diversity, she has had to oversee a lot of unexpected disruptions during the festival’s first decade – not least of which was the FOLD’s ...

In 1999 Alistair MacLeod publishes his one novel, No Great Mischief. It was a very big deal at the time. The master’s masterwork. International acclaim. Class struggle was at its heart. But I learned ...