The annual Canadian Griffin Poetry Prize was awarded on June 13th to David W. McFadden for his work What's the Score?, published by LPG member Mansfield Press.

A follow-up to Be Calm, Honey, which was nominated for the Governor General's Award in 2008, What's the Score? features 99 provocative and inquisitive poems that display McFadden's deceptively plainspoken voice.

The League of Canadian Poets recently announced the winners of the 2013 Pat Lowther and Gerald Lampert Memorial Awards, as well as the Raymond Souster Award, at their annual festival in Toronto.

Notebook M, written by Gillian Savigny and published by LPG member Insomniac Press, took home the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award, which recognizes the best first book of poetry published by a Canadian in the previous year.

Inspired by Charles Darwin's Notebook M, Savigny brings together the techniques of poetry and science to imagine what scientific creativity might look like.

The Literary Press Group is a non-profit organization of Canadian-owned and -operated publishers of fiction, poetry, drama, and other titles on the theatre. For a full list of our members, visit our Publishers page.

Attached is a catalogue of titles available during the 2013 Congress conference. If you have any questions about any of these titles, please get in touch.

The nominees for the 2013 Trillium Book Awards were revealed on May 30th. The Ontario government created the award in 1987 as a way to recognize and spread awareness of the literary excellence among Ontario authors. The awards are open to books in any genre and there are awards for both French and English titles.

Congratulations to LPG members Coach House Books and Nightwood Editions on their nominations:

English Language Finalists for the Trillium Book Award

Maidenhead by Tamara Faith Berger, published by Coach House Books

English Language Finalists for the Trillium Book Award for Poetry

The Lease by Mathew Henderson, published by Coach House Books

The Atlantic Book Awards announced the 2013 winners on May 16th in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia at a sold out event hosted by CBC Radio's Louise Renault.

Congratulations to Goose Lane Editions and Breakwater Books on both taking home awards:

The Metamorphosis: The Apprenticeship of Harry Houdini by Bruce MacNab (Goose Lane) won the Atlantic Publishers Marketing Association's Best Atlantic-Published Book Award

In the Field by Joan Sullivan (Breakwater) won the Rogers Communications Award for Non-Fiction

The Literary Press Group is a non-profit organization of Canadian-owned and -operated publishers of fiction, poetry, drama, and other titles on the theatre. For a full list of our members, visit our Publishers page.

Attached is a list of the titles available during the 2013 PACT conference. If you have any questions about any of these titles, please get in touch.

Winners of the 2013 Doug Wright Awards were announded on May 12th as part of the Toronto Comic Arts Festival. The awards honour the legacy of the fantastic Canadian cartoonist Doug Wright and recognize the best in English-language comics and graphic novels published in the past year.

Congratulations to:

Michel Rabagliati for winning Best Book for The Song of Roland, published by Conundrum Press

Nina Bunjevac for winning the Spotlight Award for Heartless, published by Conundrum Press

The Canadian Booksellers Association recently announced the shortlists for this year's Libris Awards. The Libris Awards are voted on by members of the Canadian book industry and are meant to honour the talent and books that were enjoyed by book buyers and sellers over the past year.

Congratulations to Coach House Books for their nomination in the Small Press category.

The winners will be announced at an awards dinner in Toronto on June 3rd. To view a complete list of the nominees, please visit the CBA website.

Congratulations to Sarah de Leeuw and NeWest Press! Geographies of a Lover was awarded the 2013 Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize, as part of the BC Book Prizes, on May 4th in Victoria.

The award is supported by the BC Teachers' Federation and this year's judges were Larissa Lai, Susan Musgrave, and John Pass. To view a full list of all the 2013 BC Book Prizes winners, please visit bcbookprizes.ca.

The Saskatchewan Book Awards group recently announced the winners of the 2013 -- and 20th anniversary -- winners!

Congratulations to our member publishers and their authors:

While the Sun is Above Us by Melanie Schnell, published by Freehand Books, won the National Bank Financial Wealth Management First Book Award and the Drs. Morris & Jacqui Shumiatcher Regina Book Award

The Pious Robber by Harriet Richards, published by Thistledown Press, won the SaskPower Fiction Award