 | Thursday, May 30, 2024 | |  | | | | As the month of May draws to a close CBC Books is highlighting books for Asian Heritage Month by writers of East Asian, South Asian, Western, Central and Southeast Asian descent to read year round. | | |  | | | | From constant emails to coworker rivalries, the corporate world can be equal parts frustrating and entertaining. Such was the experience of Calgary writer Natalie Sue working in offices, which she fictionalized in her novel I Hope This Finds You Well. Sue spoke to The Next Chapter's Ali Hassan about her own love of office comedies. | | |  | | | | The annual awards, created by the Crime Writers of Canada in 1984, uplift the best in mystery, crime, suspense fiction and crime nonfiction by Canadian authors. Amanda Peters has won for her novel The Berry Pickers and Cherie Dimaline has won for her YA novel, Funeral Songs for Dying Girls. | | |  | | | | In Frankie Barnet's Mood Swings, animals besiege cities all around the world, fed up with the mistreatment of the environment. For the supposed safety of humanity, they're all neutralized. But a world without animals is off-putting, and Jenlena, a floundering Instagram poet breaks out of her passivity and capitalizes on the heartbreak that ensues. Barnet spoke with Ali Hassan on The Next Chapter about creating this fictional universe. | | |  | | | | Jackie Kay is a prolific writer of prose, poetry and drama who focuses on the theme of identity. She’s written over 20 books and was Scotland’s National Poet for five years. Revisit Eleanor Wachtel’s 2007 conversation with Kay about her short story collection Wish I Was Here on Writers & Company. | | |  | | | | Being a finalist for the CBC Poetry Prize can jumpstart your literary career. Need proof? Here are books that were written by former CBC Poetry Prize winners and finalists that are being published this year. | | |  | | | | After working at some of the biggest animation studios in the world and breaking out with her own art, the Canadian cartoonist Aminder Dhaliwal is reflecting on what it means to protect your creativity, and your sanity, in a world that's always demanding that we work harder and faster. Dhaliwal spoke with Q’s Tom Power about her new graphic novel, A Witch’s Guide to Burning. | | |  | | | | Maggie Burton has won the Canadian First Book Prize for her debut poetry collection Chores.
The St. John's-based writer will receive $10,000 and a six-week residency in Italy, in partnership with the Civitella Ranieri Foundation. Now in its second year, the prize celebrates a Canadian first book of poetry written in English. | | |  | | | | In 2019, Holocaust survivor Max Eisen's memoir won Canada Reads. Defended by science journalist Ziya Tong, By Chance Alone tells a moving and heart-wrenching story of luck and survival. Now, that story will be made accessible to younger readers in the new By Chance Alone: The Young Readers' Edition out this fall. Read an excerpt now. | | |  | | | | There are a couple more days to enter the 2024 CBC Poetry Prize! Submissions will close on Saturday, June 1 at 4:59 p.m. ET.
The winner receives $6,000 from the Canada Council for the Arts, a two-week writing residency at Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity and their work will be published on CBC Books.
Four finalists each receive $1,000 from the Canada Council for the Arts and their work is also published on CBC Books. | | | Share this newsletter | | or subscribe if this was
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