"WE LOVE YOU, BUNNY is an unhinged waltz through the corridors of creative academia, blending satire and surreal magical chaos as artistic creations stumble through the night with axes and fall in love, frat parties end in murder, and creative jealousies fuel uncanny powers." - Jury Citation

Happy Halloween! 🎃

On Tuesday, November 18, at 6 p.m., this year's #GillerPrize winner will be in conversation with Noah Richler at Union Hotel. Visit gillerprize.ca/booktalk to purchase your ticket! #CravingCanLit #CanLit #canadianliterature #canadianfiction #fiction #bookclub #bookevent

The 2025 #GillerPrize winner will be announced on Monday, November 17. 📺 9 p.m. (11:30 p.m. AT, 12 a.m. NT) on CBC TV, CBC Gem, and CBC’s YouTube channel. 📻 Listeners can tune in to a broadcast special on CBC Radio and CBC Listen. #CravingCanLit #canlit #canadianliterature

A&S in the News 📗 "We Love You, Bunny," the newest novel from creative writing professor Mona Awad, is one of five books that have been shortlisted for the 2025 Giller Prize. The $100,000 annual award recognizes the best in Canadian fiction. @gillerprize.bsky.social #BookSky

Mona Awad's #1 National Bestselling novel, WE LOVE YOU, BUNNY, is a finalist for the 2025 #GillerPrize. #CravingCanLit #CanLit #canadianliterature

Attention #Toronto Booklovers! TIFA Presents: Between the Pages, an evening with the 2025 #GillerPrize finalists, is happening on November 12, at 7:30 p.m. The event will take place at the Isabel Bader Theatre (93 Charles St W, Toronto). Tickets are available at gillerprize.ca/btp.

Limited tickets remain for the Ann-Marie MacDonald #BookTalk on October 21 at Union Hotel. Your ticket includes: ☕️ A pastry item & hot beverage 🍷 A glass of wine 📚 A copy of Fall on Your Knees + book signing Purchase your ticket at gillerprize.ca/booktalk! #GillerPrize #CravingCanLit

Hoping your long weekend has been full of time with family and friends, good food, and lots of reading! #GillerPrize #CravingCanLit #CanLit #canadianliterature

How many of these #GillerPrize-shortlisted titles have you read? #CravingCanLit #CanLit #canadianliterature

Congratulations to the authors on this year's Giller Prize shortlist, including AC affiliates @eddyboudeltan.bsky.social, @emmadonoghue.bsky.social & Souvankham Thammavongsa.

Congratulations to the 2025 @gillerprize.bsky.social finalists. We can’t wait to hear from all five authors at #VWF2025 this month! @eddyboudeltan.bsky.social @emmadonoghue.bsky.social Mona Awad Emma Knight Souvankham Thammavongsa gillerprize.ca/the-giller-p...

@gillerprize.bsky.social just announced their shortlist for 2025. Am excited to pick these books for my next reading. Am starting with “We Love You, Bunny” by Mona Awad. #gillerprize #gillerprize #weloveyoubunny #booksky #reading #books #canlit #canadianliterature

We are pleased to share the 2025 #GillerPrize shortlist! Learn more here: gillerprize.ca/the-giller-p... #CravingCanLit #CanLit #canadianliterature

One more sleep! We're announcing the 2025 #GillerPrize shortlist tomorrow at 10 a.m. ET. Subscribe to our newsletter to be notified when we share the news! gillerprize.ca/newsletter #CravingCanLit #CanLit #canadianfiction #canadianliterature

"For years after my father’s death, I had not been able to write about him. Then, after writing Houyhnhnm, my memories of him came flooding back, altered and strange. Other Worlds, as a result, feels very personal." gillerprize.ca/giller-spotl... #GillerPrize #CravingCanLit

"Parts of this book have been ruminating since I was a teenager, and even before, but the focus of the book came into existence when I began to get to know people on street outreach eight years ago." gillerprize.ca/giller-spotl... #GillerPrize #CravingCanLit

"I was looking out at the forest and still, peaceful lake when a nineteen-year-old Englishman started talking in my head. He had a kind of melancholy drawl, and he was addressing someone called Pen. I scribbled what they were saying to each other in my notebook." gillerprize.ca/giller-spotl...

Set an alarm! On Monday, October 6, at 10 a.m. ET, we will announce the 2025 Giller Prize shortlist. Subscribe to our newsletter to be notified when we share the news! gillerprize.ca/newsletter #GillerPrize #CravingCanLit #CanLit #canadianliterature

"Many authors inspire all my books and plays...but for this book, of course I was very inhabited by Virgina Woolf’s stream of consciousness, as well as Quebec giant Robert Lalonde’s lucid and loving books." gillerprize.ca/giller-spotl... #CravingCanLit #canadianliterature #CanLit #canadianfiction

"After I wrote Bunny, I missed the world of it profoundly. I always longed to return. I knew there was more I wanted to say about the life of a story and what we owe that life. About who gets to tell stories." gillerprize.ca/giller-spotl... #GillerPrize #CravingCanLit #CanLit

Join us on Oct 21 at 6 p.m. for #BookTalk with Ann-Marie MacDonald. Tickets include: 📚 A copy of Fall on Your Knees 🥐 A pastry & hot beverage 🍷 A glass of wine ✍️ Audience Q&A, and the chance to have your book signed. Tickets are limited! Purchase yours here: gillerprize.ca/booktalk

"I’d been wanting to write a novel about being second-generation Canadian, the experience of feeling caught between cultures and expectations." gillerprize.ca/giller-spotl... #CravingCanLit #canadianliterature #CanLit #canadianfiction

"This book began as a list poem. Each line expanded into paragraphs, pages, and then, eventually, full stories. Each story was centred around a type of kitchen." gillerprize.ca/giller-spotl... #GillerPrize #CravingCanLit #CanLit #canadianliterature

"After I finished writing How to Pronounce Knife, I was obsessed with the story I wrote in it titled “Mani Pedi.” I wanted to continue writing it and the novel became a spinoff from that." gillerprize.ca/giller-spotl... #CravingCanLit #canadianliterature #CanLit #canadianfiction

"I have a soft spot for Gluten who appears in part 2 and is so much more than the himbo he seems to be. I’m also fond of the minor characters who died before the beginning of the novel, Beckett’s mother and his dog, PointFive." gillerprize.ca/giller-spotl... #GillerPrize #CravingCanLit

ONE WEEK! 📚🎉 On October 6 at 10 a.m. ET, we will announce the 2025 #GillerPrize shortlist! Sign up for our newsletter to be notified when we share the news. gillerprize.ca/newsletter/ #CravingCanLit #CanLit #canadianliterature

"I read as part of my job, but also to be exposed to the imagination of writers that invite us to think expansively. Thankfully, Canadian writers come from so many different backgrounds and have so many entry points to read from, and I’m grateful for that." gillerprize.ca/giller-spotl...

"Wild Life began as a short story, itself inspired by a short story called The Debutante, by the English-Mexican surrealist author Leonora Carrington." gillerprize.ca/giller-spotl... #GillerPrize #CravingCanLit #CanLit #canadianliterature

"Trains have been associated with the books we read on them since the start, and I was very aware that The Paris Express would be my attempt to contribute to that long literary tradition." gillerprize.ca/giller-spotl... #GillerPrize #CravingCanLit

"I wrote the first 30 pages of The Sideways Life of Denny Voss at a writer’s retreat in 2010 and immediately fell in love with Denny. He was stubborn and funny, and he had an undefinable charm. I couldn’t stop thinking about him; I even dreamed about him." gillerprize.ca/giller-spotl...

"I started with the idea of a woman calling a man from her past to ask for a favour. I knew their relationship had been fraught and that there was an unwillingness or reticence on her part in having to ask him. This is still the first page of the novel." gillerprize.ca/giller-spotl...

Congratulations to @ubcokanagan.bsky.social's Joanna Cockerline on her 2025 #GillerPrize longlist nomination for Still! This is the third consecutive year where a UBCO author was nominated! Find out more about Joanna's first novel, Still, here: news.ok.ubc.ca/2025/09/11/n...

Congratulations to Otoniya Okot Bitek for Long List of We the Kindling! OMG!

With the wonderful news of @eddyboudeltan.bsky.social nominated for the @gillerprize.bsky.social now is a great time to read his other novels! Use FINALIST20 as promo code to get 20% off at www.dundurn.com

Very cool to see Amanda Leduc's newest book on the Giller longlist! Wild Life is Leduc's third book published as a born-accessible book—in traditional commercial formats as well as accessible digital formats and braille. Love to see support for disabled authors and stories and accessible books.

Celebrating Fanny Britt & translator Susan Ouriou! Sugaring Off has been longlisted for the @gillerprize.bsky.social. Britt's Governor General's Literary Award-winning book probes intimacy, denial, & how we are tied to others—whether those we love or those we exploit. bookhugpress.ca/shop/author/...

Woo hoo @amandaleduc.bsky.social !

ICYMI: We announced the 2025 #GillerPrize longlist yesterday! The shortlist will be announced on Monday, October 6, at 10 a.m. ET. Sign up for our newsletter to stay in the loop. gillerprize.ca/newsletter #CravingCanLit #CanLit #canadianliterature

Congratulations to everyone longlisted for this year's Giller Prize!

Congratulations to Kirti Bhadresa whose book An Astonishment of Stars was longlisted for The Giller Prize! @gillerprize.bsky.social @beingkirti.bsky.social #gillerprize

Congratulations to all the longlisted authors for the 2025 @gillerprize.bsky.social, including Kirti Bhadresa (AN ASTONISHMENT OF STARS), Fanny Britt (SUGARING OFF), and Joanna Cockerline (STILL)! 🙌🎉 #booksky #canadianauthor #canadianliterature #CanLit

Fourteen outstanding Canadian authors have been named to the 2025 #GillerPrize longlist! gillerprize.ca/the-giller-p... #CravingCanLit #CanLit #canadianliterature #canadianfiction #canadianshortstories

The 2025 #GillerPrize longlist will be announced tomorrow at 10 a.m. ET! Subscribe to our newsletter at gillerprize.ca/newsletter. #CravingCanLit

Inspired by real East Coast traditions and witch lore, THE WITCH OF WILLOW SOUND by Vanessa F. Penney is a modern gothic tale that explores family lost and found and throws firelight on dark truths about what societies do with the people, and the past, they don’t want. youtu.be/fbO3JQlUGvA

When WE LOVE YOU, BUNNY by Mona Awad opens, Sam has just published her first novel to critical acclaim. But at a New England stop on her book tour, her one-time frenemies, furious at the way they’ve been portrayed, kidnap her. youtu.be/coYcKaLKJZI #CravingCanLit

An electric examination of sex and love, self-loathing, and twenty-first century loneliness, SELF CARE by Russell Smith is a devastating novel about women and men, what they want and what they say they want, and the violent tension between the two. youtu.be/IGAZ7vULDts #CravingCanLit

On September 25, we're hosting chapter IV of #BookTalk in collaboration with Union Hotel in #Toronto. 2017 #GillerPrize winner Michael Redhill will be in conversation with 2015 winner André Alexis. Purchase your ticket at gillerprize.ca/booktalk! #CravingCanLit #CanLit #canadianliterature

Joanna Cockerline’s STILL is the story of Kayla, who lives and works on the streets of Kelowna, BC, and of her friend, Little Zoe, a woman who also works in the sex trade and has gone missing. youtu.be/9O7jbgn3_-I #CravingCanLit

After making a grievous mistake that ended in death, Henryk Mandrusiak feels increasingly ostracized within his own community, and after the passing on of his parents and the departure of his best friend, Reid, there is little left to tie him to the place he calls home. youtu.be/E_2oV7dUO2k