 | Thursday, May 18, 2023 | |  | | | | After 15 years hosting The Next Chapter — CBC Radio's award-winning weekly magazine show on Canadian authors and literature — this current season will be the last for Shelagh Rogers: she's retiring in the spring of 2023. | | |  | | | | We know that submitting to a literary prize can be a daunting task. That's why we asked some of our past readers and CBC Poetry Prize longlisted writers for their best writing tips. Here's what they told CBC Books. | | |  | | | | Since 2000, the Canadian Children's Book Centre (CCBC) has organized the giveaway to deliver Canadian children's picture books to every Grade 1 student in Canada. More than 12 million books have been distributed to Canadian students since its inception. The books will be given to the students in fall 2023. | | |  | | | | Inspired by literary classics, Vesna Goldsworthy's novels engage with life in London through the lens of Eastern European and Russian characters. Her 2017 novel, Monsieur Ka, is an ingenious follow-up to Tolstoy's masterpiece Anna Karenina, focusing on the life of Anna's son, whom she was forced to abandon for her lover, Vronsky. For this week’s episode, Writers & Company revisits Eleanor Wachtel’s 2019 conversation with Goldsworthy. | | |  | | | | The 2023 CBC Poetry Prize is 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Submit your original, unpublished poem or collection of poems.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. | | |  | | | | Ocean Vuong's second poetry collection, Time Is a Mother, was an instant New York Times bestseller. Now, it's been shortlisted for the 2023 Griffin Poetry Prize. The poet joins host Tom Power on Q to talk about how the death of his mother inspired this new collection, and his experience with expressing grief through art. | | |  | | | | In a rapidly moving world of online diet culture, Daniel Kalla shares his insight as an emergency doctor in his new novel Fit to Die. Fit to Die is a medical thriller following the effects of a deadly diet pill known as DNP across Los Angeles and Vancouver. Kalla discussed Fit to Die on The Next Chapter with Shelagh Rogers. | | |  | | | | 13th-century Persian poet Rumi is, almost 800 years later, as big as he's ever been. His words are everywhere: featured on Coldplay songs, inked on Brad Pitt's bicep, omnipresent on Twitter and Instagram. One of Beyoncé and Jay-Z's kids is named after him. But who was Rumi, actually? That's the question that a new exhibit at Toronto's Aga Khan Museum hopes to answer. | | |  | | | | The year is 2038. Ess wakes up alone on a sailboat off the coast of Haida Gwaii with no memory of who she is or how she got there. That's the opening scene for Lisa Briedeau's debut novel, Adrift. The novel follows Ess as she figures out who she is, what happened to her and what the state of the world is. Hint, things aren't looking great: dangerous storms and thousands of climate change refugees have become the norm. | | | Share this newsletter | | or subscribe if this was
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