Cassandra Drudi

1 week ago | quillandquire.com | Cassandra Drudi

The COVID-19 pandemic, corporate governance, intimate partner violence, and the power of the courts are the topics examined by the five books shortlisted for the Donner Prize. The annual $60,000 prize, established in 1998, recognizes the best book about public policy written by a Canadian. This year, the jury read more than 80 books submitted by a record-breaking 47 publishers. The winner will be announced at an event in Toronto on May 15. The four finalists will each receive $7,500.

1 week ago | quillandquire.com | Cassandra Drudi

Canadian writers Chanel Sutherland and Damhnait Monaghan are among the 25 writers shortlisted for the 2025 Commonwealth Short Story Prize. The prize is awarded annually to the best piece of unpublished short fiction between 2,000 and 5,000 words. Shortlisted writers are sorted into five regional categories: Africa, Asia, Canada and Europe, Caribbean, and Pacific. Regional winners receive £2,500 ($4,573 CAD), with the overall winner to receive £5,000 ($9,147 CAD).

2 weeks ago | quillandquire.com | Cassandra Drudi

Susie Taylor has won the 2024 BMO Winterset Award for fiction and Lisa Moore and Jack Whalen have won the 2024 BMO Winterset Award for nonfiction. Taylor was granted the prize for her short story collection Vigil  (Breakwater Books), while Moore and Whalen received the award for their book Invisible Prisons (Knopf Canada/Penguin Random House Canada). The annual award, now in its 25th year, celebrates Newfoundland and Labrador writers across all genres, granting a $12,500 prize to the winner.

2 weeks ago | quillandquire.com | Cassandra Drudi

Finalists have been named for the 2025 B.C. and Yukon Book Prizes. The annual awards, now in their 41st year, are administered by the West Coast Book Prize Society and celebrate the achievements of B.C. and Yukon writers, illustrators, and publishers. The winners in eight categories will be announced at a gala in Vancouver on Sept. 21, alongside the winners of the Lieutenant Governor’s Award for Literary Excellence and the Borealis Prize: The Commissioner of Yukon Award for Literary Contribution.

3 weeks ago | quillandquire.com | Cassandra Drudi

Canadian authors Dominique Fortier and Canisia Lubrin have been shortlisted for the 2025 Carol Shields Prize for Fiction. Canadian translator Rhonda Mullins is also on the shortlist for her translation of Fortier’s novel. The $150,000 (U.S.) prize, named after the American-born and Canadian-based author Carol Shields, acknowledges, celebrates, and promotes the best works of fiction written by women and non-binary writers in Canada and the United States.