Every time I do this I think I’ll be pleasantly surprised by the result. I think it’ll be better this time. And the Giller actually is. As the results below show, the Giller is slightly more diverse than the TD Canadian Children’s Literature Award and the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize. But that’s not saying… Read Post
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#DiverseCanLit Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize
CanLit made headlines last week because of sexist and racist comments by Canadian novelist David Gilmour. The drama began with his interview in Hazlitt magazine where he said he didn’t teach books by women, only “serious heterosexual guys,” then continued in the National Post where he made a bad situation worse. The Canadian publishing industry… Read Post
#DiverseCanLit TD Canadian Children’s Literature Award
I often rely on anecdotal information when I speak about the lack of diversity in Canadian publishing. I’ll talk about the demographics of my publishing class, my difficulty finding diverse books on shelves, and compare the number of books about black children to the number of books about dinosaurs. However the work by Cooperative Children’s… Read Post
6 East Asian Writers
The third milestone in my Heritage Reads Challenge is not only complete, but also exceeded. I read books by six East Asian writers rather than than the requisite five and found some new favourites. Ruth Ozeki’s Man Booker longlisted work was stunning and powerful; Jeannie Lin’s historical romances were fun and steamy, and a welcome… Read Post