 | Wednesday, December 20, 2023 | | The 2024 CBC Nonfiction Prize will open January 1, 2024. While you work on your submission, here’s some content that you might have missed on CBC Books! | | | | |  | | | | Being a finalist for the CBC Literary Prizes can jump-start your literary career. Need proof? Here are 55 books that were published in 2023 written by former CBC Literary Prizes winners and finalists. | | | | |  | | | | Here are the CBC Books picks for the top Canadian nonfiction of the year! | | | | |  | | | | Canada Reads is back! This year, the great Canadian book debate is looking for one book to carry us forward.
When we are at a crossroads, when uncertainty is upon us, when we have faced challenges and are ready for the future, how do we know where to go next? This collection of books is about finding the resilience and the hope needed to carry on and keep moving forward. Tune in on Jan. 11 when the shortlist is revealed! | | | | |  | | | | Trivia expert and host of the Backbench podcast Mattea Roach shares three memoir recommendations with The Next Chapter’s Ali Hassan: Joan Didion's Where I Was From, Emma Healey's Best Young Women Job Book and Michelle Zauner's Crying in H Mart. | | | | |  | | | | In adulthood, rarely do we experience the Hallmark Christmas celebrations we dream of. In Better Next Year, editor JJ Lee and contributor Sonja Larsen share their nostalgic and often disastrous feelings about the holiday.
The BC-based writers shared stories from their childhood celebrations on The Next Chapter with Ali Hassan. | | | | |  | | | | CBC Books has put together a list of 14 Canadian works of fiction, nonfiction, poetry and children's books to highlight disabled writers and stories about disabilities. | | | | |  | | | | Author Casey Plett talks about growing up in a small town in Manitoba before moving to the Pacific Northwest.
In On Community, Plett draws on a range of firsthand experiences as a trans woman to spark a conversation on the larger implications of community as a word, idea and symbol. | | | | |  | | | | In his youth, Emmanuel Jal was recruited to fight as a child soldier in the Second Sudanese Civil War in the 1980s. After years of violence and loss, came a chance encounter with an aid worker – and an escape. He made his way to Canada, finding a home here and becoming a powerful voice for peace. He shares his hard won insights about conflict, trauma and overcoming obstacles, as explored in his new book My Life is Art. | | | | | Share this newsletter | | or subscribe if this was
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