The annual poetry weekend is upon us! Once again UNB Fredericton welcomes many acclaimed Canadian and local poets at this weekend-long poet...

Photo by Brian Bartlett Long-time Fiddlehead editor and contributor Bill Bauer passed away this spring.  I’ll miss him, especially for...

The Writers Trust of Canada is accepting submissions for 2010 RBC Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers . To be eligible candidates mus...

John Barton , the 2010/11 University of New Brunswick writer-in-residence, author of eight poetry collections and winner of a CBC Literary A...

 Congratulations to fellow Irish transplant Emma Donohue on her Man Booker nomination for her novel Room (a bidding war for the novel'...

Jim Hannah’s blog, Encylopedia Hannasina , has an interesting post on the slush pile and how it should be done away with. In particular he ...

We’re still enjoying summer days, but we’re also drawing close to the fall season of new books. One title I’m particularly curious about is ...