Books Here are 51 writing tips to inspire your own work CBC Books has collected 51 writing tips that can help you produce that first draft of a book or novel, a submission for the CBC Literary Prizes ...

Becoming a published book author is a dream shared by many professionals, but the path to get there can seem complicated and daunting. Who better to offer guidance than those who have successfully ...

Each year, CBC Books asks students to give us a glimpse of the great Canadian novel of the future for the First Page student writing challenge. Students are challenged to write the first page of a ...

For many years I have been fielding questions on how to publish a book. Is it my imagination, though, or have the frequency and the intensity of the pleas for help and access increased? It is now a ...

“The Titanic was sinking so we jumped in the lifeboat and paddled like hell.” Since its inception, which featured former host Mary Alice Monroe, the show has branched out with live appearances, an ...

This Q&A first appeared in Write at the Edge, a newsletter from Mallary Tenore Tarpley featuring tips and best practices for seasoned and amateur writers who want to hone their craft. Subscribe to ...

For the sci-fi nerds, Robert A. Heinlein needs no introduction. He was one of the Big Three English sci-fi writers of the 20th century, alongside Isaac Asimov and Arthur C. Clarke. He was maybe not ...

“A writer,” Saul Bellow once observed, “is a reader moved to emulation.” But what if it’s also the other way around? What if, when we think about writing, we are actually teaching ourselves how to ...