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Posted: Mar 16, 2021 9:44 AM ET | Last Updated: March 16 Francesca Ekwuyasi (left) and Billy-Ray Belcourt are two of the Canadian finalists for the 2021 Lambda Literary Awards.(Submitted by Francesca Ekwuyasi, Tenille Campbell) Francesca Ekwuyasi, Vivek Shraya and Billy-Ray Belcourt are among the Canadians nominated for the 2021 Lambda Literary Awards. The Lambda Literary Awards annually celebrate the best in LGBTQ literature from around the world. There are nine Canadian books nominated across 24 categories. Francesca Ekwuyasi is a finalist in the lesbian fiction category for her de...

"I felt a lot of pressure. I feel like I'm representing so much more than myself in this competition. I'm representing communities. I'm Mohawk. I'm also queer...it's also representing two-spirit and Indigiqueer communities in this. So it's so much bigger than myself and I just feel so humbled and so honoured to have been a part of this and now to call Jonny Appleseed the winner of Canada Reads." The runner-up was   which tells the interwoven stories of three Nigerian women, Kambirinachi and her twin daughters Taiye and Kehinde, who are torn apart by a traumatic experience.  Jacobs won i...

In a tight 3-2 vote on the final day of debates, Devery Jacobs took home the win for Joshua Whitehead's debut novel Jonny Appleseed.

by Craig Takeuchi on March 11th, 2021 at 12:50 PM 1 of 1 2 of 1 One book has been crowned the 2021 champion of CBC’s annual book debate. After four days of discussion and debate—as well as laughter and tears—in Toronto from March 8 to 11, Joshua Whitehead’s debut novel Jonny Appleseed was named the top book for Canadians to read. Host Ali Hassan moderated the debate between five celebrity panelists who advocated for their chosen Canadian books, based on the theme of One Book to Transport Us. Each day of the competition saw the panelists eliminate one of five books chosen as fina...

Indigiqueer author Joshua Whitehead's "Jonny Appleseed" has won CBC's Canada Reads Contest.The debut novel from Whitehead, an Oji-nehiyaw scholar from Peguis First Nation, follows a two-spirit . . .