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ORDINARY WONDER TALES a finalist for the 2023 HILARY WESTON WRITERS’ TRUST PRIZE FOR NONFICTION!

Biblioasis is thrilled to share that Ordinary Wonder Tales by Emily Urquhart (November 1, 2022) has been announced as a finalist for the 2023 Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction! You can check out the full shortlist here.  The 2023 jury citation for Ordinary Wonder Tales: “Emily Urquhart’s collection of essays about folklore, storytelling, and wonder […]

News & Awards: THE FUTURE, THE ART OF LIBROMANCY, CONFESSIONS WITH KEITH, and more!

THE FUTURE The Future by Catherine Leroux trans. Susan Ouriou (Sep 5, 2023) was reviewed in the Toronto Star. The review was published August 31st, 2023. You can read the full review here. Alex Good writes of this post-dystopian novel, “What makes The Future hopeful is its imagining of new, organic, co-operative (but not egalitarian) communities … savage […]

HOW TO BUILD A BOAT longlisted for THE BOOKER PRIZE 2023!

We’re thrilled to share that this morning at 4 AM ET, the Booker Prizes announced the longlist for the 2023 Booker Prize. Among them is How to Build a Boat by Elaine Feeney which will be published by Biblioasis on November 7, 2023.  The 2023 Booker judges on How to Build a Boat: “The interweaving […]

Media Hits: ALL THINGS MOVE, ON CLASS, DREAMING HOME, and more!

IN THE NEWS ALL THINGS MOVE Jeannie Marshall, author of All Things Move: Learning to Look in the Sistine Chapel by (April 4, 2023), was interviewed by Meg Nolan in Foreword Reviews. The interview was published online on May 11, 2023. You can read the interview here. All Things Move was also featured on All […]

THE MUSIC GAME wins the 2023 FRENCH-AMERICAN TRANSLATION PRIZE for Fiction!

We’re thrilled to share that JC Sutcliffe has won the 2023 French-American Translation Prize for Fiction for her translation of The Music Game by Stéfanie Clermont! Read the official announcement here. Since 1986, the French-American Foundation, with the longstanding support of the Florence Gould Foundation, has awarded an annual prize for exceptional translations from French […]

April Media Hits!

IN THE NEWS! ALL THINGS MOVE All Things Move: Learning to Look in the Sistine Chapel by Jeannie Marshall (April 4, 2023) was reviewed by Randy Boyagoda on CBC’s The Next Chapter! The episode was posted on April 21, and is available to listen to here. All Things Move was also reviewed in Ploughshares on […]