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In September 1999, seven Canadians and one American were kidnapped in Ecuador.
The Edmonton Chinese Writing Club’s anthology We Are Water and Light: Anti-Racism Stories Rooted in Chinese Wisdom and Other Asian Traditions will be featured at LitFest Alberta on Friday, October 16.
LitFest will open its 2026 festival in Edmonton on Wednesday, October 14, with Alberta-raised author Trina Moyles in conversation with writer Conor Kerr about her memoir Black Bear: A Story of Siblinghood and Survival.
Edmonton poet Nisha Patel has built her third poetry collection around a number that changed as she worked: the recorded deaths from COVID-19 in Alberta.
Dundurn anthology Monsters brings 14 writers together for unsettling short fiction
Clara Hughes has a new memoir arriving October 13, 2026, with launch-week events in Calgary, Winnipeg and Ottawa.
Kitchener, Ont., poet Chris Banks will release his eighth poetry collection, Bureau of Useless Splendour: Poems, on Oct 13, 2026, through Toronto-based independent publisher ECW Press.
Daniel Gawthrop’s Cutting Edge: Hockey as Queer Culture gets a new release on Oct 13, 2026, when ECW Press’s Bespeak Audio Editions publishes an audiobook narrated by Ivan Lo.
Adrick Brock’s first novel, Islanders, arrives Oct 6, 2026 from Nightwood Editions, with a story that begins on Toronto Island and later follows its characters to Whitehorse.
Toronto-shot feature Her Last Supper will screen at the Forest City Film Festival in London, Ont., on Oct 21, 2026, giving Canadian filmmaker Becca-Willow Moss a confirmed fall festival date for her first feature as writer-director.
Newfoundland author Trudy J. Morgan-Cole will release her eighth historical-fiction novel, Beyond the Brightening Sea, through St. John’s-based Breakwater Books on Oct 6, 2026.
The Giller Prize has named five Canadian novels to its 2026 shortlist, narrowing a field of more than 140 submissions ahead of the winner announcement in Toronto next month.
R.F. Kuang has appeared at the Ottawa International Writers Festival three times in the festival’s current author archive: in 2022 for an event built around Babel, in 2023 for Yellowface, and in 2026 for Taipei Story
Toronto designer George Sully’s memoir, Designing in the Dark: A Memoir of Vision, Resilience, and Redefining Canadian Design, arrives Oct. 6 from ECW Press.
Five books are in the running for the 2026 Atwood Gibson Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize, with novels by Zak Jones, Téa Mutonji, Lisa Robertson, Blair Palmer Yoxall and Ashraf Zaghal making this year’s shortlist.
Jody Chan’s third poetry collection, Madness Belongs to the People, was published by Brick Books on Sept. 22.
Penguin Canada has acquired Canadian rights to Dolly, the second novel from Toronto-based author Emma Knight, whose fiction debut became a Canadian and New York Times bestseller, a Read with Jenna selection and a Giller Prize finalist while also selling internationally and moving into television development.
R.F. Kuang returns to the Vancouver Writers Fest Saturday night with a sold-out event for her new novel, Taipei Story, her third appearance with the festival since 2023 and one of five Canadian dates on the book’s wider international tour.
Mooz is a cat with the name of a moose and, at least on the page, the habits of several other animals.
Long before Colin James had eight JUNO Awards and multi-platinum record sales, he was a Saskatchewan teenager playing clubs he wasn't legally old enough to enter.
Alberta’s book publishing community gathered in Edmonton on Sept. 17 for the 2026 Alberta Book Publishing Awards, with this year’s winners spanning literary fiction, poetry, children’s books, graphic novels, scholarship, regional history and book design.
Thirty years after The Edmonton Queen first reached the Edmonton International Fringe Theatre Festival, Darrin Hagen’s writing debut is returning in another form.
Toronto writer, poet and editor Terese Mason Pierre has been given one of Worldcon’s featured platforms this week, and she has already said what she wants to do with it.
Canadian author Amanda Leduc will spend the next 10 months writing, meeting with readers and helping other writers develop their work as the University of Calgary’s 2026–27 Canadian Writer-in-Residence.
Emily St. John Mandel’s seventh novel will be published in Canada Tuesday, bringing the B.C.-raised author back to some of the ideas that have run through her work for years: fractured societies, alternate paths, surveillance and the uneasy relationship between safety and freedom.