March 5, 2010. Congratulations to Randall Maggs and Brick Books for winning the 3rd Kobzar Literary Award for Night Work: The Terry Sawchuk Poems. The award was presented at a gala ceremony in Toronto on March 4th.

Night Work is comprised of compact, conversational poems that build into a narrative long poem, following the tragic trajectory of the life and work of Terry Sawchuk, dark driven genius of a goalie who survived twenty tough seasons in an era of inadequate upper-body equipment and no player representation. 

March 4, 2010. Yesterday the 2010 nominees for the 11 Atlantic Books Awards were announced by the Atlantic Books Awards Society.

We offer our congratulations to several of our publishers and authors who have had their books nominated for an award:

Trudy J Morgan-Cole & Breakwater Books Ltd - By the Rivers of Brooklyn - for the APMA Best Atlantic-Published Book Award

Tonja Gunvaldsen Klaassen & Gaspereau Press - Lean-To - for the Atlantic Poetry Prize

Zachariah Wells & Biblioasis - Track & Trace - for the Atlantic Poetry Prize

George Elliot Clarke & Goose Lane Editions - / & / - for the Dartmouth Book Award (Fiction)

March 2, 2010. Congratulations to both Myrna Kostash and Michael Davie for their nominations for the inaugural Alberta Readers' Choice Award!

The Frog Lake Reader by Myrna Kostash, from Edmonton, gives a masterful account of the 1885 Cree uprising known as the Frog Lake Massacre.

Calgary's Michael Davie penned Fishing for Bacon, his first novel about hapless teen Bacon Sobelowski in this funny coming-of-age romp.