Maisonneuve, the Montreal-based quarterly magazine, is a general-interest publication, which makes it hard to describe without comparing it to other mags. It’s a cooler Walrus, a Vice without nude photo spreads and written to a higher level of reading comprehension, or even a Harper’s, except Canadian and for younger people—and relatively small. But no matter [...]

Every Saturday, Historicist looks back at the events, places, and characters that have shaped Toronto into the city we know today. At the turn of the twentieth century, three young Canadians from the University of Toronto moved to New York to pursue literary careers that had seemed impossible at home. The attic apartment shared by [...]

Canzine 918 Bathurst Centre (map) Sunday October 23, 1–7 p.m. $5 entry (includes the fall issue of Broken Pencil) With an all-time high of 193 vendors, a brand new space, and even a mini Toronto Underground Market (TUM), this year’s Canzine—the popular zine fair and alternative culture fest, organized by Broken Pencil magazine—is promising to [...]

The 2011 Canadian Online Publishing Awards finalists were announced last week, and Torontoist is excited to be up for four of them. We’ve got nods in Best Overall Online-Only Publication, Best Blog, Best News Coverage, and Best Online-Only Article or Series. The nominations recognize everything from the funny to the serious: the pieces we submitted [...]

The National Magazine Awards have, for the past two years, been recognizing the role of online-only publications in Canadian media. And for the second year in a row, we are so happy to announce, they like what we’re doing: Torontoist has been nominated for Magazine of the Year (Digital). The nomination is for the site [...]

Screengrab of the purported National Magazine Award nominee list, as it appeared on its website this morning. The media industry went on high alert this morning, as excited writers and editors started tweeting exclamations of joy and gratitude, happy to learn that they had been nominated for Canada’s National Magazine Awards. First given out in [...]

Photo of BookCamp sessions by Chloe Ellingson. Last February, when three of the four major publishers in Canada pulled out of Toronto’s annual book industry trade show, BookExpo sadly bit the dust. The collective feeling, particularly amongst small press publishers and indie booksellers, was “where do we meet now?” The book industry is in trouble, [...]

If you’re into the idea of kids with bigger, shinier brains and programs that facilitate such things, you might be familiar with Now Hear This!, Toronto’s very own not-for-profit literary outreach organization. With a mandate of education through the arts, they do good things like hold Satire and Fake News Writing workshops for kids, complete [...]

From left to right: Ox, Morning Gothic: New and Selected Poems, The Mechanical Bird, and Sympathy for the Couriers. On Monday October 29, more books will be heading into town via Véhicule Press. The Montréal-based publishing house will be kicking back in Toronto, boasting four new poetry titles: The Mechanical Bird by Asa Boxer, Morning [...]

On Sunday afternoon, over 150 independent publishers, writers, artists and bloggers from across the continent will pack Toronto’s Gladstone Hotel for Canzine, Canada’s largest celebration of small press publishing and alternative culture. The affair is organized by Broken Pencil, a quarterly magazine devoted to mobilizing the scattered community of small-circulation art. This year, to coincide [...]