 | Thursday, September 19, 2024 | |  | | | | From graphic memoirs about grief and loss, to humorous coming-of-age stories for kids, there's something for every lover of comics and graphic novels this season. Here are some of the comics by Canadians to check out this fall. | | |  | | | | Among the shortlisted writers are Martha Baillie for her memoir There Is No Blue, Chase Joynt for his book Vantage Points and Jenny Heijun Wills for her essay collection Everything and Nothing At All. The $75,000 award recognizes the best in Canadian nonfiction. It is the largest prize for nonfiction in Canada. The winners will be announced at the Writers' Trust awards gala on Nov. 19, 2024. | | |  | | | | When Halifax-based writer David Huebert moved to southwestern Ontario to do his PhD, he was immediately intrigued by the towns and villages he came across like Petrolia and Oil Springs. This led him to researching the history of oil in Ontario and eventually writing a novel about it. Huebert spoke about writing Oil People on Bookends with Mattea Roach. | | |  | | | | Canadian writers Ted Bishop, Aldona Dziedziejko, Alison Pick, Evelyn N. Pollock and Emi Sasagawa have made the 2024 CBC Nonfiction Prize shortlist. Each of the shortlisted writers will receive $1,000 from the Canada Council for the Arts. The winner will be announced on Sept. 26. You can read all five shortlisted stories now on CBC Books. | | |  | | | | Named after the 1971 prison uprising in upstate New York, writer Attica Locke was raised with the constant reminder of the importance in fighting for our shared humanity. When Locke decided she was going to write a mystery series about a Black Texas Ranger, shaping his conscience and moral centre became an evolving and engrossing process. Locke spoke to The Next Chapter’s Antonio Michael Downing about writing the final book in the Highway 59 series Guide Me Home. | | |  | | | | When American writer Sloane Crosley first met Russell Perreault, he was her boss for a publishing job at Vintage Books. The two were best friends for many years and when Perreault later died by suicide it left her with profound pain, confusion and grief.
This experience led to Grief is for People, the memoir Crosley wrote in the aftermath of losing her friend. She opened up about this journey on Bookends with Mattea Roach. | | |  | | | | Jennilee Austria-Bonifacio and Maurice Vellekoop are among the five Canadian shortlisted authors for the 2024 Toronto Book Awards. Established by Toronto City Council in 1974, the $10,000 Toronto Book Awards honour books that are inspired by the city. This year marks the 50th anniversary of the prize. | | |  | | | | Nathan Maharaj is consummate reader across genres of fiction and nonfiction. As a career bookseller and the director of content marketing at Rakuten Kobo, he found that a gap on his bookshelf lied in mysteries and crime fiction. Maharaj set out to find three mysterious reads he enjoyed and he recommended them to Antonio Michael Downing on The Next Chapter. | | |  | | | | When Toronto-based journalist Bonny Reichert turned 40, she quit her job and enrolled in culinary school — a life-changing decision that pushed her to explore her relationship with food in writing. This exploration, along with a critical bowl of borscht in Warsaw, led Reichert to writing her memoir, How to Share an Egg. Read an excerpt now! | | |  | | | | The 2025 CBC Short Story Prize will be accepting submissions between Sept. 1 and Nov. 1 at 4:59 p.m. ET (1:59 p.m. PT).
You can submit your original, unpublished short fiction for a chance to win $6,000 from the Canada Council for the Arts, a two-week writing residency at Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity and have your story published on CBC Books. | | | Share this newsletter | | or subscribe if this was
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