Congratulations to Nino Ricci who has been named to the Order of Canada

Big congrats to Esi Edugyan, Half-Blood Blues (Serpent's Tail) and Alison Pick, Far to Go (Headline) on making the 2011Booker longlist!

Congratulations to Todd Babiak, whose novel Toby: A Man won the 2011 Alberta Literary Award (George Bugnet Award for Fiction)

Congratulations to Michael Christie, whose short story collection The Beggar's Garden (HarperCollins Canada) has been longlisted for the Frank O'Connor Award, the world's largest short story prize.