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...
“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...
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...
Poets in Profile: Emily McGiffin – at Open Book: Ontario Find out what inspires, confounds and delights today’s Canadian poets by following our Poets in Profile series. Emily McGiffin, winner of the Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers, has just published her first collection Read more...
Nora Gould is a poet and rancher from Alberta and her debut poetry collection I see my love my clearly for a distance is prairie poetry beyond pretty landscapes; brighter than golden wheat fields, and at times darker than long winter nights. She brings to life animal, vegetable and mineral and Read more...
WFNS Executive Director Nate Crawford announced the shortlist for the 2012 Writers’ Federation of Nova Scotia Literary Awards on June 2, 2012 following the non-profit organization’s Annual General Meeting. The WFNS Literary Awards celebrate and acknowledge literary excellence from Atlantic Read more...
Amatoritsero Ede in Conversation with Kitty Lewis and Stan Dragland Amatoritsero Ede: We have informally collaborated a lot with Brick Books by reviewing your publications. We can take it a step further by having a discussion around your publishing program. Brick Books’ path, in the early Read more...
May 21, 2012 – The shortlist for the Canadian Authors Association’s 2012 Literary Awards was announced last night at the association’s CanWrite! conference in Orillia, Ontario. The shortlist is as follows: CAA Award for Fiction Patrick deWitt, Portland, Oregon, for The Sisters Read more...
Jennifer Still is the winner of the John Hirsch Award for Most Promising Manitoba Writer at the Manitoba Book Awards which took place on Saturday, April 28 at the Centre Culturel Franco-Manitobain in Winnipeg. Her second poetry collection Girlwood was shortlisted for the Aqua Lansdowne Prize for Read more...
E. Alex Pierce talks to Open Book about setting up a writing colony, how living in Sable River, Nova Scotia affects her writing and her new poetry collection, Vox Humana (Brick Books). Alex is participating in the Tree Reading Series event in Ottawa on March 27, 2012. Open Book: Tell us about Read more...
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