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Welcome to The Writers’ Union of Canada’s listing of literary readings, book launches, festivals, and other great Canadian book events that are happening across the country. Please peruse the listings and discover events happening in your area.
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ATLANTIC Book Awards
 
Posted by: TWUC Administrator on March 9, 2010
Please see article:
http://www.atlanticbookawards.ca/  TOP
Some very exciting news!
The Book and Periodical Council 
Posted by: TWUC Administrator on February 11, 2010
The Book and Periodical Council is this year’s winner of the Les Fowlie Intellectual Freedom Award. The honour is awarded by the Ontario Library Association.

The BPC won the award because of the “tireless efforts” of its Freedom of Expression Committee “in promoting intellectual freedom for all Canadians” and “organizing the annual Freedom to Read Week,” said Shelagh Paterson, Executive Director of the OLA.

The OLA will present the award during Freedom to Read Week at 8 a.m. on Friday, February 26, 2010 at the OLA’s Super Conference at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre.   TOP
BC Book Prize Finalist
Brian Brett
Posted by: TWUC Administrator on March 19, 2010
Brian Brett has been shortlisted for three BC Book Prizes: the Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize, the Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize, and the Bill Duthie Booksellers’ Choice Award for Trauma Farm: A Rebel History of Rural Life (Greystone Books).  TOP
BC Book Prize Finalist
Kristin Butcher
Posted by: TWUC Administrator on March 19, 2010
Kristin Butcher has been shortlisted for the Sheila A. Egoff Children’s Literature Prize for Return to Bone Tree Hill (Thistledown Press).  TOP
Atlantic Book Awards
George Elliott Clarke
Posted by: TWUC Administrator on March 18, 2010
George Elliott Clarke has been shortlisted for the Dartmouth Book Award (Fiction) for George Elliott Clarke, I & I (Goose Lane Editions).  TOP
BC Book Prize Finalist
Lorna Crozier
Posted by: TWUC Administrator on March 19, 2010
Lorna Crozier has been shortlisted for the Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize for Small Beneath the Sky: A Prairie Memoir (Greystone Books).  TOP
Commonwealth Prize Shortlist
Michael Crummey
Posted by: TWUC Administrator on March 2, 2010
Michael Crummey has been shortlisted for the Commonwealth Prize for Best Book in Caribbean and Canada for Galore.  TOP
Atlantic Book Awards
Michael Crummey
Posted by: TWUC Administrator on March 18, 2010
Michael Crummey has been shortlisted for the Atlantic Independent Booksellers' Choice Award and the Thomas Head Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award for Galore (Doubleday Canada).  TOP
Commonwealth Writers' Prize winner
Michael Crummey
Posted by: TWUC Administrator on March 19, 2010
Michael Crummey has won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize Canada and Caribbean Region Best Book for Galore (Anchor Canada/Random House of Canada).
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Atlantic Book Awards
John DeMont
Posted by: TWUC Administrator on March 18, 2010
John DeMont has been shortlisted for the Evelyn Richardson Memorial Literary Prize for Non-Fiction for Coal Black Heart (Doubleday Canada).  TOP
Winner: Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing
John English
Posted by: TWUC Administrator on March 19, 2010
The Writers’ Trust of Canada announced that John English won the Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing for his biography Just Watch Me: The Life of Pierre Elliott Trudeau, 1968-2000, published by Knopf Canada. The prize was awarded at the Politics and the Pen gala in Ottawa.  TOP
Just Watch Me: The Life of Pierre Elliott Trudeau, 1968-2000
John English
Posted by: TWUC Administrator on February 2, 2010
John English's book entitled Just Watch Me: The Life of Pierre Elliott Trudeau, 1968-2000, published by Knopf Canada, has been shortlisted for The Writers' Trust of Canada $25,000 Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing. The prize will be awarded at the sold-out Politics and the Pen Gala on March 10, 2010, in Ottawa.  TOP
Commonwealth Prize Shortlist
Connie Gault
Posted by: TWUC Administrator on March 2, 2010
Connie Gault has been shortlisted for the Commonwealth Prize for Best Book in Caribbean and Canada for Euphoria.  TOP
Commonwealth Prize Shortlist
Carla Gunn
Posted by: TWUC Administrator on March 2, 2010
Carla Gunn's sleeper hit Amphibian is one of 6 titles shortlisted for Best First Book in the Canada and Caribbean region!
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Bronze winner of Axiom Business Book Award
Franke James
Posted by: TWUC Administrator on March 19, 2010
Franke James’ innovative game-book was awarded the Bronze Medal in the HR/Employee Training category. Dear Office-Politics is a role-playing game that encourages lively discussion of workplace issues. It helps people exercise their ethical muscles, analyze power, increase empathy, and understand why the “right” course of action is actually in their — and the company’s best interests.  TOP
Dear Office Politics wins Axiom Business Book Award
Franke James
Posted by: TWUC Administrator on March 17, 2010
Dear Office-Politics, the game everyone plays is the winner of a 2010 Axiom Business Book Award.

Franke James’ innovative game-book was awarded the Bronze Medal in the HR/Employee Training category. Dear Office-Politics is a role-playing game that encourages lively discussion of workplace issues. It helps people exercise their ethical muscles, analyze power, increase empathy, and understand why the “right” course of action is actually in their — and the company’s best interests.
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The Neatest Little Book Store
John Jansen in de Wal
Posted by: John Jansen in de Wal on February 10, 2010
The Neatest Little Book Store just opened on the Net.
Go visit. For free. Buy a book or two . Support CHIRS   TOP
BC Book Prize Finalist
Gillian Jerome
Posted by: TWUC Administrator on March 19, 2010
Gillian Jerome has been shortlisted for the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize for her collection Red Nest (Nightwood Editions).
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The Frog Lake Reader
Myrna Kostash
Posted by: TWUC Administrator on March 2, 2010
Myrna Kostash's The Frog Lake Reader is among the five contenders for the inaugural $10,000 Alberta Reader's Choice Award.  TOP
BC Book Prize Finalist
Jennifer Lloyd
Posted by: TWUC Administrator on March 19, 2010
Jennifer Lloyd has been shortlisted for the Christie Harris Illustrated Children’s Literature Prize for Ella’s Umbrellas, Illustrated by Ashley Spires (Simply Read Books).  TOP
BC Book Prize Finalist
Annabel Lyon
Posted by: TWUC Administrator on March 19, 2010
Annabel Lyon has been shortlisted for the BC Book Prize Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize for her novel The Golden Mean (Random House Canada).  TOP
Commonwealth Prize Shortlist
Annabel Lyon
Posted by: TWUC Administrator on March 2, 2010
Annabel Lyon has been shortlisted for the Commonwealth Prize for Best Book in Caribbean and Canada for The Golden Mean.  TOP
Atlantic Book Awards Shortlist
Jill MacLean
Posted by: TWUC Administrator on March 18, 2010
Jill MacLean has been shortlisted for the Ann Connor Brimer Award for Children's Literature for The Present Tense of Prinny Murphy (Fitzhenry & Whiteside).  TOP
Heritage and History Book Award
Randall Maggs
Posted by: TWUC Administrator on March 18, 2010
Randall Maggs has been shortlisted for the 2009 Heritage and History Book Award for Nightwork: The Sawchuk Poems (Brick, 2008).
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Recipient of $25,000 Kobzar Literary Award for 2010
Randall Maggs
Posted by: TWUC Administrator on March 19, 2010
Renowned Canadian author Randall Maggs has been named the recipient of the $25,000 Kobzar Literary Award for his acclaimed hockey saga Night Work: The Sawchuk Poems (Brick Books, 2008).

Randall Maggs, a poet, editor, artistic director of Newfoundland's March Hare Festival and a professor of literature at Memorial University, accepted the Kobzar prize on March 4 at a gala ceremony attended by over 270 guests at the Palais Royale ballroom in Toronto.  TOP
Commonwealth Prize Shortlist
Anne Michaels
Posted by: TWUC Administrator on March 2, 2010
Anne Michaels has been shortlisted for the Commonwealth Prize for Best Book in Caribbean and Canada for The Winter Vault.  TOP
Commonwealth Prize Shortlist
Lisa Moore
Posted by: TWUC Administrator on March 2, 2010
Lisa Moore has been shortlisted for the Commonwealth Prize for Best Book in Caribbean and Canada for February.  TOP
BC Book Prize Finalist
Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas
Posted by: TWUC Administrator on March 19, 2010
Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas was shortlisted for the Bill Duthie Booksellers’ Choice Award for Red: A Haida Manga (Douglas & McIntyre).  TOP
Heritage and History Book Award
George A.  Rose
Posted by: TWUC Administrator on March 18, 2010
George A. Rose has been shortlistef for the 2009 Heritage and History Book Award for Cod: The Ecological History of the North Atlantic Fisheries (Breakwater, 2007).
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Atlantic Book Awards
Valerie Sherrard
Posted by: TWUC Administrator on March 18, 2010
Valerie Sherrard has been shortlisted for the Ann Connor Brimer Award for Children's Literature for Tumbleweed Skies (Fitzhenry & Whiteside).  TOP
BC Book Prize Finalist
Robin Stevenson
Posted by: TWUC Administrator on March 19, 2010
Robin Stevenson has been shortlisted for the Sheila A. Egoff Children’s Literature Prize for Inferno (Orca Book Publishers).  TOP
BC Book Prize Finalist
Fred Wah
Posted by: TWUC Administrator on March 19, 2010
Fred Wah has been shortlisted for the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize for his collection is a door (Talonbooks).  TOP
The Creation of Hope
Eric Walters
Posted by: TWUC Administrator on March 2, 2010
An award winning children’s author, Eric was recognized for his commitment to social justice and contributions to our society by establishing The Creation of Hope, an outreach program and orphanage in Kikima, Kenya. The program provides direct support, education, advocacy, micro-grants and micro-loans for children and their extended families throughout the region who are living at risk.  TOP
Commonwealth Prize Shortlist
Ian Weir
Posted by: TWUC Administrator on March 2, 2010
Ian Weir has been shortlisted for the Commonwealth Prize for Best First Book in the Caribbean and Canada for Daniel O'Thunder.  TOP
BC Book Prize Finalist
Ian  Weir
Posted by: TWUC Administrator on March 19, 2010
Ian Weir has been shortlisted for the BC Book Prize Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize for his novel Daniel O’Thunder (Douglas & McIntyre).  TOP
BC Book Prize Finalist
Frieda Wishinsky
Posted by: TWUC Administrator on March 19, 2010
Frieda Wishinsky has been shortlisted for the Christie Harris Illustrated Children’s Literature Prize for Maggie Can't Wait, illustrated by Dean Griffiths (Fitzhenry & Whiteside).  TOP
BC Book Prize Finalist
Cathleen With
Posted by: TWUC Administrator on March 19, 2010
Cathleen With has been shortlisted for the BC Book Prize Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize for her novel Having Faith in the Polar Girls’ Prison(Penguin Group Canada).  TOP

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