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Conor Kerr has won a ReLit Award for his novel, Avenue of Champions. The ReLit Awards have been described as the “country’s pre-eminent literary prize recognizing independent presses” (Globe and Mail). 

Harbour Publishing's Fall 2022 catalogue, which includes forthcoming releases from Nightwood Editions and Lost Moose Books, is now available for download here! Read on for short summaries of the Fall 2022 books from Nightwood Editions.

Finalists for the fifth annual Indigenous Voices Awards (IVAs) have been announced, and two books from Nightwood Editions have been recognized in the “Published Poetry in English” category: Undoing Hours by ...

Sunshine Coast author Marion Quednau has been recognized for her latest book by the ReLit Awards. Sunday Drive to Gunclub Road is on the shortlist in the 2022 Short Fiction category.

Nightwood Editions congratulates Conor Kerr, whose book, Avenue of Champions is a finalist for the $60,000 Amazon First Novel Award in the Adult Novel category. Established in 1976, the First Novel Award pro...

The winners for the 2022 League of Canadian Poets Book Awards have been announced, and Selina Boan has won the Pat Lowther Memorial Award for Undoing Hours.

The shortlists for the 2022 League of Canadian Poets Book Awards have been announced, and Creeland by Dallas Hunt and Undoing Hours by Selina Boan have both been included.

The shortlists for the 2022 BC and Yukon Book Prizes have been announced, and two Nightwood authors have been included. Matt Rader is shortlisted for the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize for Ghosthawk (Nightwo...

The 2022 Ryga Award shortlist has been announced, and Creeland by Dallas Hunt was included. Creeland is a poetry collection concerned with notions of home and the quotidian attachments we feel to those notio...

The longlists for the 2022 League of Canadian Poets Book Awards have been announced, and we are delighted to share that two Nightwood poets have been included: Selina Boan, who is longlisted for the Pat Lo...

Nightwood Editions would like to congratulate Joseph Dandurand, winner of the 2021 Lieutenant Governor’s Award for Literary Excellence, which recognizes a writer who has contributed significantly to the deve...

The Writers’ Trust of Canada announced the finalists for the Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBTQ2S+ Emerging Writers on May 26, 2021. Vancouver poet jaye simpson—whose powerful debut collection of poetry, it was n...