- Ninja favourite Michelle Good wins Amazon first novel award!;
- Emerging poet Selina Boan profiled at CBC;
- There are Canadian crime writing awards? For what? Improperly filled-out fire permit for burning those leaves? Not waving on other drivers during a four-way-stop? Some sort of government scandal involving school computers? I kid…. I kid because I love…. and because it’s funny;
- 100 years of the Newberry Medal;
- Italian kids book awards;
- New kind of story-telling developed on Twitter;
- Why do we like mysteries? Because life is a mystery: everyone must stand alone; I hear you call my name and it feels like…. home;.
- Ta-Nehisi Coates on his decade at Marvel Comics;
- Almost over: a reminder that all month Steven Beattie has been throwing down on short stories over at his blog That Shakespearean Rag… get over there and get caught up;
- Cast for Sandman adaptation looks amazing;
- Competitive cursive writing? Now that’s a student sport I can watch;
