 | Thursday, May 25, 2023 | |  | | | | Here are the Canadian kids books we are excited about this season! | | |  | | | | Students imagined how current affairs, events and trends — from the ethics of advanced technology to climate change and human rights — has played out in the year 2173.
Over 1,200 stories were submitted for the 2023 competition. You can read the 22 shortlisted entries now! | | |  | | | | When Alycia Pirmohamed entered the 2019 CBC Poetry Prize, she was a student at the beginning of her writing career. When her submitted collection, Love Poem with Elk and Punctuation, Prairie Storm and Tasbih, was named the winner, it was the first of many impressive accomplishments. In 2022, she published her first full poetry collection, Another Way To Split Water. She spoke to Dave White on CBC Yukon's Airplay about all her success! | | |  | | | | Students from kindergarten to high school are encouraged to read from a selection of shortlisted books and vote for their favourites in the Forest of Reading program. Find out what books they chose this year! | | |  | | | | 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Submit your original, unpublished poem or collection of poems.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. | | |  | | | | Michelle Porter’s novel A Grandmother Begins the Story follows five generations of Métis women through this life and the next in this debut novel about navigating identity through one's ancestors. Porter spoke to Shelagh Rogers about A Grandmother Begins the Story on The Next Chapter. | | |  | | | | Joining Eleanor Watchtel onstage will be Matt Galloway, host of CBC’s The Current, along with novelists Gary Shteyngart and Brandon Taylor. Get your tickets for this special Luminato event in Toronto on June 16 now. | | |  | | | | Aside from having the coolest pen name on the planet, author Porsche Ray has already ticked a lot of boxes. She's just completed her fifth book in a series centred around Melinda, a young girl with autism. Porsche Ray is also a young girl with autism and she's only 10 years old. | | |  | | | | When Nelly Duvicq's students held a print edition of L'inugagullirq in their hands for the first time a few weeks ago, their pride was palpable. L'inugagullirq, based on a local Inuit legend, has been published online as part of Un livre à la fois, a Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) project linking elementary and UQAM students, who work together to create an illustrated book. | | |  | | | | Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas's latest graphic novel JAJ — or Haida manga, as he describes it — digs into colonialism, and blends in some of his own family history. | | | Share this newsletter | | or subscribe if this was
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