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.

Omar El Akkad and Miriam Toews are among the five writers shortlisted for the 2025 Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction. The $75,000 award, now in its 15th year, recognizes excellence in ...

Come around the campfire and let me tell you the tragic tale of what befell #OwnVoices. In 2014, Asian-American authors Ellen Oh and Malinda Lo started the diversity campaign #WeNeedDiverseBooks.

Storyteller and children’s author Jan Andrews died on Sept. 2 at the age of 75, after falling down a flight of stairs at a friend’s home earlier in the week. The author, who lived with her partner ...

If the statistics are to be believed, we are facing a global refugee crisis. According to the United Nations, there were a staggering 59.5 million people forcibly displaced from their homes by the end ...

In the December issue of Q&Q, Scott MacDonald asks: how do you edit one of the most precise writers working in the English language? According to Alice Munro’s long-time U.S. and Canadian editors, ...

Thirty-one years after it was first awarded, the future of the Giller Prize is uncertain. Without stable funding, the Giller Foundation says the prize will be forced to end operations at the end of ...

The Al Purdy A-frame Association and Eurithe Purdy has announced the jurors for the 2026 Purdy Poetry Prize. Last year’s prize winner, A.F. Moritz, and the inaugural winner, Sid Marty, will be joined ...

It’s been just over 24 hours since parts of Ontario saw their first snowfall of the season, Courtney Summers’s corner of the province among them. But the scene out her window is far from Hallmark ...

Brian Thomas Isaac’s All the Quiet Places transports the reader across time and space to a, well, quiet corner of the Okanagan Indian Reserve in the southern Interior of British Columbia in 1956.

Author and CBC Radio host Waubgeshig Rice grew up in the community of Wasauksing First Nation on Parry Island, a swirl of land at the eastern edge of Ontario’s Georgian Bay. On August 14, 2003, Rice ...

Among Chinese people, the phrase “Have you eaten yet?” is shorthand for “How are you?” This colloquial greeting, writes filmmaker Cheuk Kwan, “shows that you care. Because of war, famine and poverty, ...