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.

Your Nickel’s Worth Publishing for Tanning Moosehides: The Northern Saskatchewan Trapline Way by Tommy Bird, Lawrence Adam, Lena Adam, and Miriam Körner.

As 2025 reaches its half-way mark, a look at the bestselling books from all Canadian authors and books from Canadian authors published by Canadian publishers at independent bookstores reveals an ...

Over the course of three instalments, Q&Q presents the titles we’re most excited about this fall. This week’s instalment features novels. Short fiction and poetry titles will be featured next week, ...

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 ...

Two decades after the last dictionary of Canadian English was published, work is finally underway on a new Canadian dictionary. Editors Canada announced in February that the professional organization ...

To many, including the most impoverished and disenfranchised people in downtown Toronto, she’s known as Mother Maggie. Author Maggie Helwig, best-known for her 2008 novel Girls Fall Down, is also a ...

Writer, journalist, and filmmaker Omar Mouallem’s Praying to the West: How Muslims Shaped the Americas is a fascinating exploration of the many manifestations of Islam across cultures, traditions, ...

The list was compiled by Halifax journalists Trevor J. Adams and (occasional Q&Q contributor) Stephen Clare, based on the votes of more than 700 authors, critics, librarians, professors, booksellers, ...

Brandi Morin opens her debut memoir, Our Voice of Fire: A Memoir of a Warrior Rising, with her visit, along with a New York Times reporter and photographer, to the home of Tina Fontaine’s great-aunt ...