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We are thrilled to announce that Jes Battis won the Saskatchewan Book Awards’ Poetry Award Honouring Anne Szumigalski for their debut poetry collection, I Hate Parties. The 32nd annual awards were presented ...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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"...

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.

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.

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).

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...