Category Archives: Book News
Elizabeth Comack on APTN
Hot on the heels of the release of her latest book, Racialized Policing, Dr. Elizabeth Comack was interviewed by APTN. The full interview can be viewed on their website. After you hear Dr. Comack discuss her book, why not pick … Continue reading
Book Award Nomination Round-up
Wow! What a week it’s been around the Fernwood HQ. We’ve had three (!!!) of our books nominated for awards. First off, Gloria Wesley’s Chasing Freedom has been shortlisted for the Ann Connor Brimer Award for Children’s Literature by the … Continue reading
Fernwood Authors Nominated for Manitoba Book Awards
We’d like to send a massive congratulations to Jim Silver and David Camfield for having their books nominated for a Manitoba Book Award. Silver’s Good Places to Live and Camfield’s Canadian Labour in Crisis are both up for the Alexander … Continue reading
The Ocean Ranger Available Now
Our first (of twenty!) Spring 2012 book is available to order now. The Ocean Ranger, by Susan Dodd, recounts the tragedy of the Ocean Ranger oil rig, which sank off the Newfoundland coast in 1982: On February 15, 1982, the … Continue reading
HUGE Fernwood Event Update
Someone left our Promotions Department on overnight, and we have a HUGE amount of author tour dates and book launches to tell you about. First and foremost, Paul Bennett and Richard Zurawski will be doing a series of signings and … Continue reading
Drive-by Saviours wins Salty Ink’s Book Cover Design Award!
The results are in, and with an amazing 776 votes, Roseway’s Drive-by Saviours has won Salty Ink’s 2010 Judge-a-Book-by-Its-Cover Competition! Since we’re talking design here, we need to send a big huge congratulations to John Van Der Woude, who designed … Continue reading
Vote for Drive-by Saviours in Salty Ink’s Book Cover Contest!
Geez, the Drive-by Saviours train just keeps on rolling! First, it made the top 40 list on CBC’s Canada Reads 2011 survey, and now Salty Ink has chosen Drive-by Saviours for their Judge-a-Book-by-its-Cover competition! Remember how we gushed over the … Continue reading
4 Days Left to Vote for Drive-by Saviours in Canada Reads 2011!
That’s right folks. You have just four days to vote for Chris Benjamin’s Drive-by Saviours to make the top ten Canadian novels for 2011. Four days!! Voting involves clicking maybe two buttons, and it would mean the world to us … Continue reading
Drive-by Saviours makes Top 40 Canada Reads List
Holy. Moly. We can hardly believe it. Well, actually we can, because we read Chris Benjamin’s Drive-by Saviours and then decided to release it, but still! Drive-by Saviours has been voted into the Top 40 list of Essential Canadian Novels … Continue reading
Standing Up for Youth, Speaking Out Against Homophobia and Transphobia
In the course of interviewing and speaking with sixteen lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and queer (LGBTQ) youth for Get That Freak: Homophobia and Transphobia in High Schools (coauthored with Brian Burtch), I heard from young people just how prevalent homophobia … Continue reading