June is National Indigenous Heritage Month! We’d like to honour our wonderful Indigenous authors and thank them for their contributions to the world of literature. Pictured above is Eden Robinson, author of the upcoming literary fantasy The Sorceress of Sky Serpents. See also the works of Waubgeshig Rice, Kim Anderson, Lisa Bird-Wilson, Gregory Scofield, Darrell Dennis, Brian Thomas Isaac, Warren Cariou, Paul Seesequasis, and Maria Campbell.
Congratulations to Sae-Hoon (Stan) Chung, the recipient of the 2026 Ramon John Hnatyshyn Award for Voluntarism in the Performing Arts at the Governor General’s Performing Arts awards. Chung is a writer, educator, and consultant who has built a career rooted in advocacy, service, and championing change in Canada’s arts community.
In memory of Alan Bradley
Beloved author Alan Bradley, best known for his global bestselling Flavia de Luce mystery series, has passed away at the age of 87 in the Isle of Man. Bradley’s first Flavia de Luce novel, The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie, received the Crime Writers’ Association Debut Dagger Award, the Dilys Winn Award, the Arthur Ellis Award, the Agatha Award, the Macavity Award, and the Barry Award, and was nominated for the Anthony Award. The eleven books in the Flavia de Luce series have sold over six million copies worldwide and are presently published in thirty-nine countries and thirty-six languages. Alan' Bradley’s final Flavia de Luce novel, Numb Were the Beadsman’s Fingers, will be published by Doubleday Canada on November 3, 2026.
Don’t miss Flavia, releasing in the US and internationally this December!
COMING IN 2026
Anishinaabe novelist Waubgeshig Rice has sold a two-year film option on his bestselling post-apocalyptic novel MOON OF THE CRUSTED SNOW to Jennifer Podemski’s Redcloud Studios. The novel has been on Canadian bestseller lists since it was first published in 2018. Translation rights have gone to France, Germany, and French Canada. For further information, see About Redcloud Studios and https://www.bukowskiagency.com/waubgeshig-rice-1. Congratulations, Waub!
Ian Williams photobombs Margaret Atwood at the 2025 Kingston WritersFest
Eden Robinson and crows, Kitimat, British Columbia. (Cassidy Bolton)