Andrew Westoll won the gold medal for travel writing at the National Magazine Awards, for his article "Somewhere Up a Jungle River" in Explore. The article is an adapted excerpt from his forthcoming book The Riverbones.

Steven Heighton won the gold medal for fiction, for his short story "The Dead Are More Visible," published in
The Walrus.

James MacKinnon won the silver medal in the columns category for a series of articles in Explore.

Pasha Malla's widely praised debut, The Withdrawal Method is launching at The Gladstone Hotel on Wednesday
May 28. Check out the National Post's THE FILM WE MADE ABOUT PASHA MALLA for a preview...

Andrew Hood has won the $10,000.00 Danuta Gleed Literary Award for his short story collection, Pardon Our Monsters. The award is given to the best English-language collection of short fiction by a Canadian author published each year. cbc.ca

We are pleased to announce that THE KILLING CIRCLE, Andrew Pyper’s new novel, has been acquired for adaptation to feature film by the London-based Cowboy Films (Oscar-winning producers of THE LAST KING OF SCOTLAND), in association with Brilliant Films, with Justin Chadwick (THE OTHER BOLEYN GIRL, BLEAK HOUSE) attached to direct.

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In the awards ceremony performed yesterday, Don Hannah won the Thomas Head Raddall Fiction Prize for his novel RAGGED ISLANDS. The award recognizes the best work of fiction written by a native or resident Atlantic Canadian published in the previous calendar year. After Tom’s death in 1994, the continued vision and the enormous generosity of the Raddall family has seen this endowment grow to the point where it now provides $15,000 to the winning author.