National Poetry Month may be over for another year, but we still can’t get enough of Canadian poetry. Join us in finding out what inspires, confounds and delights today’s Canadian poets by following our Poets in Profile series. Today we speak with Ann Shin, an award-winning filmmaker Read more...
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...
When we think of the people behind the books we love, we generally think of writers. But many people work in a variety of professions to get those books onto your shelves. In our new series, Behind the Books, Open Book speaks with the printers, publicists, book sellers, book bloggers, event Read more...
From Salty Ink and Chad Pelley comes this fun list – including Placeholder by Charmaine Cadeau. Click here for the full article. Read more...
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...
Julie Bruck, Nora Gould and Emily McGiffin have been nominated for an award by the League of Canadian Poets Julie Bruck’s book Monkey Ranch has been shortlisted for the Pat Lowther Memorial Award Nora Gould’s book I see love more clearly from a distance has been shortlisted for Read more...
“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...
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...
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...
It’s been a great year for Brick Books. This fall, Julie Bruck won a Governor General’s Literary Award for Monkey Ranch, which also made the Globe and Mail’s Top 100. Salty Ink listed Brick poets Emily McGiffin and Jessica Moore and Brick co-founder Don McKay as top picks for Read more...
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