Attila Berki

Three out of five nominees for the 2026 Bologna Prize for the Best Children’s Publishers of the Year (BOP) for the North America region are Canadian publishers and an imprint of Penguin Random House Canada. This year's nominees are Victoria's Orca Book Publishers (also shortlisted in 2025 and 2023), Varennes, Quebec–based Milky Way Picture Books

The $20,000 Glengarry Book Award is the largest literary award in Saskatchewan.

The Matryoshka Memoirs: A Story of Ukrainian Forced Labour, the Leica Camera Factory, and Nazi Resistance published by ECW Press, was the winner of the $25,000 biennial prize.

Alexis is the first Canadian writer to win this U.S. short story prize.

The winner will be named on April 21, on the 26th anniversary of Al Purdy's death.

Canadian publishers have now won the North America region prize ten times since the prize was established in 2013.

Four literary prizes were given out at the 2026 Prince Edward Island Book Awards on May 24 in Charlottetown.

The Canadian journalist won the 2026 prize for her social history The Finest Hotel in Kabul: A People’s History of Afghanistan.

The Book Publishers Association of Alberta (BPAA) has announced the 2026 shortlists for the annual Alberta Book Publishing Awards. The awards, which encompass trade and academic publishing, and include design awards, celebrate the best in Alberta publishing in 14 categories – shortlists have been announced in 12 of those categories. The juries for the prizes

The annual prize recognizes the best debut books by Canadian writers in three categories: nonfiction, literary fiction, and this year, speculative fiction.