Recent News

McGill-Queen’s is honoured, and delighted to announce that Aki-wayn-zih: A Person as Worthy as the Earth has received the 2022 Governor General’s Literary Award for English-language NonFiction!

Congratulations to Eli Baxter, and all the 2022 Governor General’s Literary Awards winners, & finalists!

A full list of the 2022 GG recipients.

Aki-wayn-zih is a story … Read More >

We are pleased to share that MQUP poet Margo Wheaton is a Canadian Authors Association 2017 Literary Award-winner.

The Unlit Path Behind the House (Spring 2016) won the Canadian Authors Fred Kerner Book Award. It was also a finalist for two other 2017 awards: the League … Read More >

We are delighted to announce that Arthur J. Ray’s Aboriginal Rights Claims and the Making and Remaking of History has won the 2017 Canada Prize in the Humanities and Social Science!

From the jury’s citation: “Arthur J. Ray’s masterful study is based on three decades of experience in academic research and in courtrooms … Read More >

Congratulations to Howard Shubert! His new book Architecture on Ice: A History of the Hockey Arena has won the Melva J. Dwyer Award. The Dwyer Award is given to the creators of exceptional reference or research tools relating to Canadian art and architecture. The jury selected Architecture on Ice from a field of 12 nominees as … Read More >

We are very excited to announce that Trio, a collection of 120 sonnets and part of our Hugh Maclennan Poetry Series, has been shortlisted for the Pat Lowther Memorial award. Congratulations to Sarah Tolmie for this well-deserved honour.

The Pat Lowther Memorial Award has been awarded annually since 1981 by The League of Canadian Poets (LCP), and is awarded to a … Read More >