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Isabella Wang is a Writers’ Trust Rising Star!
Isabella Wang is a Writers’ Trust Rising Star!

We're thrilled to announce that Isabella Wang, the author of the poetry collections Pebble Swing and the forthcoming November, November is one of five Writers’ Trust Rising Stars in 2025. The Writers' Trust ...

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Dallas Hunt’s Teeth is a finalist for a 2025 BC and Yukon Book Prize
Dallas Hunt’s Teeth is a finalist for a 2025 BC and Yukon Book Prize

The West Coast Book Society has announced the finalists for the 2025 BC and Yukon Book Prizes, and Nightwood Editions would like to congratulate Dallas Hunt, whose poetry collection Teeth is a finalist for t...

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Rita Wong Wins the Latner Griffin Writers’ Trust Poetry Prize!
Rita Wong Wins the Latner Griffin Writers’ Trust Poetry Prize!

We're thrilled to announce that Rita Wong, the author of poetry collections  monkeypuzzle, sybil unrest, undercurrent, beholden, and forage has won the Latner Griffin Writers' Trust Poetry Prize. The $60,000...

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Crushed Wild Mint Awarded Two BC and Yukon Book Prizes
Crushed Wild Mint Awarded Two BC and Yukon Book Prizes

We’re thrilled to announce that Jess Housty has been awarded both the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize and the Bill Duthie Booksellers’ Choice Award for their poetry collection Crushed Wild Mint. The prizes were...

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Author Q&A with Joelle Barron
Author Q&A with Joelle Barron

Get to know Joelle Barron, author of Excerpts from a Burned Letter, a collection of poems which Ivan Coyote says "will enter you through your eyes, your throat, on the wind, and make its way into your chest,...

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Author Q&A with Dallas Hunt
Author Q&A with Dallas Hunt

Get to know Dallas Hunt through his new collection Teeth, which Quill & Quire called "an intimately written collection of poems dedicated ot the complexity of Cree and Indigenous life". From where did yo...

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Author Q&A with Amy Mattes
Author Q&A with Amy Mattes

Get to know Amy Mattes, the author of debut novel Late September, which has been called "a courageous, vivid, gritty, and surprisingly redemptive portrayal of a young woman in emotional and physical flux"...

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Bramah’s Quest Nominated for SFPA’s 2024 Elgin Award
Bramah’s Quest Nominated for SFPA’s 2024 Elgin Award

The Science Fiction and Fantasy Poetry Association (SFPA) has nominated Renee Sarojini Saklikar’s book, Bramah’s Quest (Nightwood Editions), for this year’s annual Elgin Award.

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Tim Blackett wins Saskatchewan First Book and Fiction Book Awards

We are thrilled to announce that Tim Blackett won two Saskatchewan Book Awards—the Fiction Book Award and the First Book Award—for his debut story collection, Grandview Drive.

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Brandon Reid shortlisted for the 2024 William Saroyan International Prize for Writing

We are excited to announce that Brandon Reid has been nominated for the 2024 William Saroyan International Prize for Writing for his debut coming-of-age novel, Beautiful Beautiful (Nightwood Editions, 2023).

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Crushed Wild Mint, Beautiful Beautiful and Dream House book covers on dark green background; BC & Yukon Book Prizes logo on bottom right
Crushed Wild Mint, Dreamhouse and Beautiful Beautiful shortlisted for the 2024 BC and Yukon Book Prizes

The West Coast Book Society has announced the shortlist for the 2024 BC and Yukon Book Prizes, and Nightwood Editions would like to congratulate the following finalists: Cathy Stonehouse, whose poetry colle...

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Crushed Wild Mint book cover on mint green background. Text on the right: Longlisted for two League of Canadian Poets Book Awards
Crushed Wild Mint longlisted for League of Canadian Poets Book Awards

Nightwood Editions is thrilled to announce that Crushed Wild Mint by Jess Housty is longlisted for the Pat Lowther Memorial Award and the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award.

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