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How I Wrote It
Why Kim Fu wrote a novel about young girls getting lost in the wilderness at summer camp
Kim Fu discusses how she wrote The Lost Girls of Camp Forevermore.
Billy-Ray Belcourt, Aisha Sasha John & Donato Mancini make Griffin Poetry Prize shortlist
The three Canadian writers are finalists for the $65,000 prize, which is one of the world's largest prizes for a book of poetry.
Enter the CBC Poetry Prize now
You could win $6,000 from the Canada Council for the Arts, attend a 10-day writing residency at the Banff Centre and have your work published on CBC Books. Enter by May 31, 2018.
The 2018 Shakespeare Selfie Student Writing Challenge is now open for submissions
Magic 8 Q&A
Catherine McKenzie on the hard work and luck it takes to be a successful writer
Salman Rushdie: 'If I'm not finding something out in the act of writing, it's not good enough'
Indigenous filmmaking team to make screen adaptation of Eden Robinson's Son of a Trickster
Why Lorri Neilsen Glenn explores her family's history in Following the River
How a Scottish library worker solved the mystery of the underlined page numbers
Zoe Whittall, Jordan Abel among writers shortlisted for ReLit Awards
Tim Cook's Vimy wins $10K J.W. Dafoe Book Prize, which recognizes a work of nonfiction about Canada
Book on Canada's taxation legacy wins $5K Canada Prize, for scholarly work in humanities and social sciences
5 books to read after Canada Reads 2018
How Jane Austen inspired Amma Asante's films about race and class in Britain
Poetry Month
Help us build the ultimate list of must-read Canadian poetry books
Bedside Books
Why IsKwé loved Patti Smith's memoir Just Kids
How I Drew It
How Emily Carroll illustrated Laurie Halse Anderson's groundbreaking YA novel Speak
Magic 8 Q&A
Why Kevin Chong's books really begin when he knows how they will end
He designed over 500 Harlequin romance covers — now there's a Canada Post stamp in his honour
Adrienne Clarkson to deliver poetic end to MAC's Leonard Cohen exhibition
The Current
We're competing with extremists for our young people's futures
CBC Books
Jeanne Beker, championing Forgiveness, wins Canada Reads 2018
Magic 8 Q&A
Why Tom Rachman destroyed the draft of his first, unpublished novel
Han Kang, Eimear McBride among 10 authors shortlisted for 2018 International Dublin Literary Award
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The Next Chapter
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