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The Women’s Prize for Fiction is the greatest celebration of female creativity in the world. The 2025 shortlist includes 6 novels that explore the need for personal freedom and human connection.
Read the shortlist for the 2025 Women’s Prize for Fiction
The BC and Yukon Book Prizes celebrate the achievements of British Columbia and Yukon writers, illustrators and publishers.
Canada Reads is back for 2025! This year, the great Canadian book debate is looking for one book to change the narrative. The books on this year's longlist all have the power to change how we see, share and experience the world around us.
The Festival of Literary Diversity (FOLD) devotes their programming to the work of marginalized and underrepresented authors and storytellers and takes place annually in Brampton, Ontario, Canada.
Mohawk writer Alicia Elliott and Treaty 1 territory-based writer Brandi Bird are among this year's winners of the Indigenous Voices Awards (IVAs). Elliott takes home the award for published prose in English for her novel And Then She Fell. Bird won the award for published poetry in English for her collection The All + Flesh.
Established by Toronto City Council in 1974, the Toronto Book Awards honour books of literary merit that are evocative of Toronto. The 2024 awards offer $15,000 in prize money: finalists receive $1,000 and the winning author is awarded $10,000.
Nina Dunic has won the Trillium Book Award for The Clarion, a novel about two siblings struggling to find a sense of purpose and belonging. As the siblings endure the many trials and tribulations of their generation like promotions and absent lovers, can they find their sense of self and keep their connection strong?
