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Congratulations, Nora Gould, winner of the Robert Kroetsch City of Edmonton Book Prize!!

Here is the announcement from the Writers Guild of Alberta: Nora Gould, author of I see my love more clearly from a distance (Brick Books), received The 2013 Robert Kroetch City of Edmonton Book Prize.  Presented annually at the Mayor’s Celebration of the Arts, this award is carried out Read more...

The Dozen Best Canadian Books of Poetry for Spring 2013?

From Salty Ink and Chad Pelley comes this fun list – including Placeholder by Charmaine Cadeau. Click here for the full article. Read more...

Congratulations, Nora Gould, a third nomination for I see my love more clearly from a distance!!

Writers Guild of Alberta announces the finalists for the 2013 Alberta Literary Awards – including I see my love more clearly from a distance by Nora Gould (Brick Books, 2012) for the Stephan G. Stephansson Award for Poetry. Here’s the official press release. This book was shortlisted Read more...

You never know where Brick Books will show up…

“Brick Books 7:30 Decanters” This goblet was given to Brick Books friend Bev Sandell Greenberg from Winnipeg by an artist friend of hers Gayle Freed. Here’s Bev’s story behind the piece: “Gayle is doing a project on vessels fashioned out of handmade papier maché Read more...

A Philosophy of Criticism by Sue Sinclair

Montreal poet Sue Sinclair has been named the Canadian Women in the Literary Arts’ first Resident Critic, a post she will hold for the next year. Brick Books is proud to have published 3 of her 4 poetry collections – Secrets of Weather & Hope, Mortal Arguments and Breaker. Here is her Read more...

Jennifer Still wins the The Banff Centre Bliss Carman Poetry Award!!

We are proud to share this press release with you – Jennifer Still is a winner in our books too!! We published her second poetry collection Girlwood in 2011. January 31, 2013 Prairie Fire Press & McNally Robinson Booksellers Announce 2012 Writing Contest Winners! Prairie Fire Press Read more...

Salty Ink’s Dozen Best Books of Canadian Poetry from 2012!!

Poetry books included on this list from Brick Books – Between Dusk and Night by Emily McGiffin, Everything, now by Jessica Moore and Monkey Ranch by Julie Bruck. And Don McKay’s Paradoxides. [Don McKay is an editor and co-founder at Brick Books.] Thanks, Chad. Read more...

Sue Sinclair, Montreal poet, announced as inaugural critic in residence – Canadian Women in the Literary Arts

Montreal poet Sue Sinclair has been named the Canadian Women in the Literary Arts’ first Resident Critic, a post she will hold for the next year. Brick Books is proud to be the publisher of 3 of Sue’s 4 poetry collections - Breaker (2008), Mortal Arguments (2003), and Secrets of Weather Read more...

Canada’s Top 10 Publisher Websites – Brick Books’ website is number 2!!!

We are very proud to be named # 2 in Salty Ink’s recent “Canada’s Top 10 Publisher Websites”. http://www.brickbooks.ca/ Laudable and applaudable for all the same reason as Coach House really. Right from the very first page on Brick’s website you can see the most Read more...

Ho – Ho – Holiday Savings!!

We are just back from Ottawa where Julie Bruck received the Governor General’s Award for Poetry for her book Monkey Ranch from His Excellency the Right Honourable David Johnston, Governor General of Canada. Monkey Ranch was also a Globe 100 title for 2012.   Brick Books is proud to be the Read more...

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