We’re so very excited to announce that the LPG is launching a 12-day online pop-up holiday bookshop December 2, 2103. The project, which we’ve dubbed “All Lit Up”, will give CanLit fans the opportunity to purchase some amazing books published by the Canadian indie presses that make up our membership this holiday season.

We’ve specially curated book bundles, a package of three or four books, which we’ve grouped under various themes. Each day at noon EST of our 12-day pop-up bookshop we’ll reveal a different themed book bundle for sale. Each book has been signed by the author (except for one but it’s really special and you’ll definitely want it on your bookshelf!) and will be for sale at a special All Lit Up discount.   

This year's Quebec Writers' Federation (QWF) Literary Awards were announced at a gala event in Montreal on November 19th; an opportunity that also gave revellers a chance to celebrate the federation itself as this year marks its 15th anniversary.

The QWF awards serve to recognize the best works published by Quebec writers in English. This year several of our members received nominations and three came away winners.

Congratulations to our members:

Wolsak & Wynn and Ken Howe won the A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry for The Civic Mindedness of Trees,

Insomniac Press and Andrew Szymanski won the Concordia University First Book Prize for The Barista and I, and

The Canada Council for the Arts announced the 14 winners, both French and English, of the 2013 Governor General's Literary Awards on November 13th in Toronto. While this year's awards had a little more international flavour with Eleanor Catton winning the Fiction award for The Luminaries, members of the LPG came away with three awards!

Congratulations to Coach House Books for winning their first ever Governor General's Award, in the drama category, for Fault Lines by Nicholas Billon, which takes a dramatic look at climate change.

J. Gordon Shillingford came away with the poetry prize for Katherena Vermette's collection, North End Love Songs, of beautifully spare and minimalist language.