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We need to know 👀Our ongoing author series ‘From writers, to readers 🍁’ features notable Canadian writers sharing thei...
08/21/2026

We need to know 👀

Our ongoing author series ‘From writers, to readers 🍁’ features notable Canadian writers sharing their must-reads. Now we want to hear from the readers, we want to hear from you!

What Canadian book is your must-read right now?

Deadline Reminder – Books published between January 1, 2026 and September 8, 2026 must be submitted for the 2027 Prize...
08/19/2026

Deadline Reminder – Books published between January 1, 2026 and September 8, 2026 must be submitted for the 2027 Prize for Political Writing before September 9.

Established in honour of the outspoken and popular MP from Windsor, Ontario, the 2027 Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing will award $40,000 to a non-fiction book that captures a political subject of relevance to Canadian readers and has the potential to shape or influence thinking on contemporary Canadian political life. $5,000 will be awarded to each finalist title.

◣ Learn more and apply: www.writerstrust.com/awards/shaughnessy-cohen-prize-for-political-writing
First Publisher Deadline: Wednesday, September 9, 2026

08/14/2026

Listen FREE to the complete rendition of “The Perfect Home For Your Child” by Graham Slaughter, and more at apple.co/bronwenwallace

This audiobook collection of outstanding Canadian poems, stories, and essays comes to life through the voices of their authors, the 2026 RBC award winners and finalists.




Produced in partnership with Apple Books and Penguin Random House Canada.

Supported by RBC, the RBC Bronwen Wallace Award cultivates the careers of emerging Canadian writers through skills development, mentorship programs, education, and access and exposure to new audiences.

An immense thank you to the 2026 Berton House Writers’ Residency jury, local author Louise Dumayne and past writers-in-r...
08/12/2026

An immense thank you to the 2026 Berton House Writers’ Residency jury, local author Louise Dumayne and past writers-in-residence Gord Grisenthwaite, and Manjushree Thapa, for their time and dedication in selecting our 2026 writers-in-residence.

These selected Canadian writers will travel to Dawson City, Yukon, to live and work for two months in the childhood home of legendary Canadian author, and Writers’ Trust co-founder, Pierre Berton (1920–2004). During their stay, the writers will engage with the northern landscape and local communities, present public readings, and enrich their own perspectives while bridging the gap between North and South.

Writers’ travel and housing is generously supported by the Lind Family Foundation, and each resident will receive a $4,000 stipend.

Operational support has been provided by the Dawson City Community Library - DĂ€htla Zho Board, the Klondike Visitors Association, and the Whitehorse Public Library.

Learn more at writerstrust.com/BertonHouse

Congratulations Eva Crocker, Christine Estima, Katie Munnik, and Maria Reva, our 2026 writers-in-residence for the Berto...
08/12/2026

Congratulations Eva Crocker, Christine Estima, Katie Munnik, and Maria Reva, our 2026 writers-in-residence for the Berton House Writers’ Residency program!

These four Canadian writers will travel to Dawson City, Yukon, to live and work for two months in the childhood home of legendary Canadian author, and Writers’ Trust co-founder, Pierre Berton (1920–2004). During their stay, the writers will engage with the northern landscape and local communities, present public readings, and enrich their own perspectives while bridging the gap between North and South.

Writers’ travel and housing is generously supported by the Lind Family Foundation, and each resident will receive a $4,000 stipend.

Operational support has been provided by the Dawson City Community Library - DĂ€htla Zho Board, the Klondike Visitors Association, and the Whitehorse Public Library.

Learn more at writerstrust.com/BertonHouse

"They invite you into their global village, a microcosm of Canada, to sit at the Pit. They incite you into the wilds, in...
08/10/2026

"They invite you into their global village, a microcosm of Canada, to sit at the Pit. They incite you into the wilds, into the mountains to pick cranberries, and onto the tundra to listen to silence. They invite you to be alone, stand in front of the kitchen window and watch the aurorae dance on a winter’s night, and sit at this oak desk and write.” – Angela Long, Writer to Writer: long legacy of the letters at Berton House.

Berton House is situated in Dawson City, Yukon, on the contemporary and traditional territory of the Tr’ondĂ«k HwĂ«ch’in, located in the childhood home of iconic Canadian author and Writers’ Trust co-founder Pierre Berton. It has operated as a writers’ residency since 1996, owned and operated by Writers’ Trust since 2007, and is generously supported by the Lind Family Foundation.

Over 100 writers have served as writers-in-residence, the residency playing an influential role in the publication of dozens of manuscripts.

Tune in this Wednesday as we announce the 2026 residents and jury.

www.writerstrust.com/programs/berton-house-writers-residency

Photo Credit: Angela Long

08/08/2026

Listen to the complete rendition of “The Old Turtle Climb” by Julia Cottrelle and more free at apple.co/bronwenwallace

This audiobook collection of outstanding Canadian poems, stories, and essays comes to life through the voices of their authors, the 2026 RBC award winners and finalists.




Produced in partnership with Apple Books and Penguin Random House Canada.

Supported by RBC, the RBC Bronwen Wallace Award cultivates the careers of emerging Canadian writers through skills development, mentorship programs, education, and access and exposure to new audiences.

Join Another Story Bookshop and Random House of Canada for the Toronto launch of ‘Eliza Sunshine’ by Michelle Good, auth...
08/05/2026

Join Another Story Bookshop and Random House of Canada for the Toronto launch of ‘Eliza Sunshine’ by Michelle Good, author of Five Little Indians and Truth Telling. Featuring a reading and conversation with award-winning journalist, author and filmmaker Tanya Talaga.

Wednesday, August 19, Paradise Theatre
Doors open at 6:30pm; event begins at 7:00pm.
Book signing to follow.

Tickets are available at https://lnkd.in/eGPT_Nuv

“In a sweeping, generational epic, Michelle Good captures the lived experiences of First Nations women caught in the mouth of genocide. Eliza Sunshine moves beautifully, sorrowfully and literally through the devastation of the buffalo slaughter and its aftermath on families, focusing on the impact on women. However, the backbone of this book is not loss, but love—the endless love of mothers and their insistence that we survive to tell our truths. Eliza Sunshine will fill you with hope, anger and pride. All First Nations women are descendants of warriors; their matriarchal power speaks through us, is never forgotten, and is vibrantly felt in the heroic tale of all the women who speak through Eliza Sunshine.” —Tanya Talaga




Michelle Good is a Cree writer and a member of the Red Pheasant Cree Nation in Saskatchewan. After working with Indigenous communities and organizations for twenty-five years, she obtained her law degree as a 43-year-old single mom, and then spent fourteen years advocating for residential school survivors. She earned her MFA in creative writing while still practising law.

Her debut novel, Five Little Indians, became a #1 bestseller and won the Governor General’s Literary Award for Fiction, the Amazon First Novel Award, the Rakuten Kobo Emerging Writer Prize, and CBC’s Canada Reads. It was also nominated for the Atwood Gibson Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize and the Giller Prize, among other honours. Good’s bestselling book Truth Telling: Seven Conversations about Indigenous Life in Canada was shortlisted for the Basillie Prize for Public Policy. In 2025, she won the Indspire Award for Arts and was admitted as a member of the Order of Canada.

08/04/2026

Listen to the complete rendition of “Psalmody for the Estranged” by Renato Gandia and more FREE at apple.co/bronwenwallace

This audiobook collection of outstanding Canadian poems, stories, and essays comes to life through the voices of their authors, the 2026 RBC award winners and finalists.




Produced in partnership with Apple Books and Penguin Random House Canada.

Supported by RBC, the RBC Bronwen Wallace Award cultivates the careers of emerging Canadian writers through skills development, mentorship programs, education, and access and exposure to new audiences.

Alumni Spotlight: Congratulations to Karen Solie, winner of the $239K Windham-Campbell Prize. Administered by Yale Unive...
08/03/2026

Alumni Spotlight: Congratulations to Karen Solie, winner of the $239K Windham-Campbell Prize. Administered by Yale University, the prize annually honours eight fiction, nonfiction, drama, and poetry writers who have been nominated in secret with the aim of supporting their writing.

The Canadian poet was awarded the prize for her sixth poetry collection, Wellwater, which explores the intersection of cultural, economic, and personal ideas of value, and addresses topics like housing, economic and environmental crisis, and aging and its incumbent losses.

Solie’s Windham-Campbell win is the most recent in a list of honours. It comes after she won the Governor General's Literary Award for Poetry (Canada Council for the Arts | Conseil des arts du Canada), the T.S. Eliot Prize, and the Forward Prizes for Poetry.

Solie was awarded the Latner Writers’ Trust Poetry Prize in 2015, which recognizes a Canadian poet in mid-career who has published at least three collections of poetry that demonstrate mastery of the art. When asked about her journey from that career prize win to her most recent accolades, Solie said, “In the decade between receiving the Latner Poetry Prize and the publication of ‘Wellwater’, I've tried to pursue what interests me without expectations other than trying to become a better writer. A lot of this involves reading other people, and challenging my many habits.”

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