We are pleased to announce that The Dishwasher by Stéphane Larue (trans. Pablo Strauss) has won the 44th annual First Novel Award! This award honours the achievements of Canadian authors and their debut novels. The the grand prize is $60,000. The Dishwasher is the first work of translation to win the First Novel Award. In a […]
Did you miss last night’s virtual launch of Anita Lahey’s new memoir The Last Goldfish? Never fear! You can watch it here! Anita was joined by Carmine Starnino, Molly Peacock, and Monique Holmes. Get your copy of The Last Goldfish here. Twenty-five years ago and counting, Louisa, my true, essential, always-there-for-everything friend, died. We were 22. […]
Publicity and Digital Marketing Intern Biblioasis is an award-winning independent publishing house based in Windsor, Ontario. We publish approximately 25 titles a year, including short fiction, novels, poetry, literary criticism, memoir, belle lettres, local and regional history, and general nonfiction. We are also the publishers of the critical journal CNQ: Canadian Notes & Queries and […]
Did you miss last night’s virtual launch of Menno Moto: A Journey Across the Americas in Search of My Mennonite Identity? Watch it here! Cameron Dueck talks with Dora Dueck and answers questions from viewers at home. Buy Menno Moto here.
Did you miss today’s Facebook livestream conversation between Mark Bourrie and Margaret Atwood? Watch it here! Buy Bush Runner: The Adventures of Pierre-Esprit Radisson here.
Today Alex Pugsley along with actors Fiona Highet, Karin Randoja, Matthew Edison, and Mary Lewis performed a section from Alex’s forthcoming novel, Aubrey McKee as a part of the National Arts Centre’s #CanadaPerforms initiative. Did you miss it? Watch it here! And check out Aubrey McKee here.
Did you miss our Facebook livestream earlier this month? Watch below for a conversation on publishing and bookselling in the time of pandemic.
Today it was announced that Bush Runner: The Adventures of Pierre-Esprit Radisson by Mark Bourrie won the final RBC Taylor Prize. To say we are ecstatic would be putting it mildly. We are so proud to be Mark’s publisher. Noreen Taylor, prize founder and chair of the Charles Taylor Foundation, announced that Bush Runner won […]
On Wednesday we tried something new! We partnered with the Book Fairies to hide copies of Pauline Holdstock’s new novel, Here I Am! across North America. Here I Am! is about a little boy named Frankie who runs away from home and stows away on a ship when his mother dies and he doesn’t know what to do. We thought […]
An excerpt from Ray Robertson’s How to Die: A Book About Being Alive is in the Globe and Mail this weekend. It is available to read online now! A radical revaluation of how contemporary society perceives death—and a literary tourist’s argument for how it can make us happy. “He who would teach men to die would teach […]
