 | Thursday, April 13, 2023 | |  | | | | If you're a fan of YA, here's your spring reading list! | | |  | | | | Read the five works contending for $6,000 from the Canada Council for the Arts and a writing residency at Artscape Gibraltar Point. The winner will be announced on April 18, 2023. | | |  | | | | Legendary Canadian band The Tragically Hip are publishing a picture book called The Tragically Hip ABC this fall. The book is a love letter to The Hip for music fans of all ages that features art from four acclaimed Canadian illustrators. | | |  | | | | Gwen Storie first opened The Arnprior Book Shop in 1993, a time she called the golden age for independent bookstores, before online shopping retailers and e-books. Coming from a family that loved books, Storie said opening the shop was a long-time dream. The shop, now called White Pine Books, recently celebrated its 30 year anniversary on April 1. | | |  | | | | The 2023 CBC Poetry Prize will be accepting submissions from April 1 until May 31, 2023 at 11:59 p.m. ET.
Submit your original, unpublished poem or collection of poems. You could win $6,000 from the Canada Council for the Arts, have your work published on CBC Books and have the opportunity to attend a two-week writing residency at Artscape Gibraltar Point. | | |  | | | | The Toronto Letter Writers Society holds monthly meet-ups for people to hand write cards and letters to loved ones and friends from across Canada and around the world. But more importantly, these social gatherings are helping people practice and reconnect with their handwriting, especially in an era of texting, voice memos and emails. | | |  | | | | Zoe Whittall's new novel The Fake explores the world of a pathological liar. Whittall sits down with Q host Tom Power to tell us more about why she wanted to interrogate the kinds of stories we tell about con artists, and shares her own experience of dating somebody who lied about having cancer. | | |  | | | | Christina Sharpe explores the everyday complexities of Canadian Black life in her work as a professor and shares those experiences in her new form-defying book, Ordinary Notes. The scholar spoke to Shelagh Rogers on the latest episode of The Next Chapter. | | |  | | | | Vikram Seth is a surprising writer who moves effortlessly between genres. Originally a poet, he became a literary celebrity in 1993 with the publication of his blockbuster novel, A Suitable Boy. In 2005, Seth spoke to Eleanor Wachtel onstage at the Toronto International Festival of Authors about his book Two Lives. Writers & Company revisits that conversation in the latest episode. | | |  | | | | Literary scholar Florence Hazrat argues we could use more exclamation marks — or exclamation points, depending on your preference — in our lives, not fewer. She wrote a book about the powerful punctuation called An Admirable Point: A Brief History of the Exclamation Mark! | | | Share this newsletter | | or subscribe if this was
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