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Join Cormorant Books on Facebook Michael Rowe's Other Men's Sons:  Winner of the 2008 Randy Shilts Award for Gay Nonfiction On Monday, April 28, Michael Rowe was named the winner of the 2007 Randy Shilts Award for Gay Nonfiction at the Publishing Triangle Awards in New York City. Michael received the award for his book, Other Men's Sons, a collection of essays and journalism which was published last fall. The Publishing Triangle Awards honour the best of lesbian and gay literature published each year. Please visit www.publishingtriangle.org for more information. Congratulations Michael. 2008 CBA Libris Award Shortlist Cormorant Books and publisher Marc Côté have both been shortlisted for the 2008 Canadian Bookseller Association Libris Awards. Cormorant has been nominated for Small Press Publisher of the Year alongside Arsenal Pulp Press and NeWest Press, and Marc has been nominated for editor of the year alongside Anne Collins of Random House Canada and Iris Tupholme of HarperCollins Canada. The winner will be announced on June 15. Please click here for more information. 2008 Dartmouth Book Award for Fiction Carol Bruneau has been nominated for the 2008 Dartmouth Book Award for Fiction for her novel Glass Voices. She is nominated alongside David Doucette and Beatrice MacNeil. Carol has won the award once before for her novel Purple for Sky. The winners will be announced Monday, May 12 at the Alderney Theatre in Dartmouth. Please click here for more information. 2008 Alberta Literary Awards Darcy Tamayose has been been shortlisted for the 2008 Alberta Literary Awards for her novel, Odori. She has been nominated alongside two other Albertans for the Georges Bugnet Award for novels. Go to www.writersguild.ab.ca for more information. Wednesday, April 30 – Monday, May 4 Several of our authors will be taking part in Montreal’s Blue Metropolis International Literary Festival. May 1 at 7:00 PM Translation Slam: Hélène Dorion and Jonathan Kaplansky will be at the Delta Centre-Ville Auditorium. May 2 at 9:00 PM Soirée de Poésie Internationale II: Jonathan Kaplansky will be at the Delta Centre-Ville Versailles. May 3 at 9:30 PM Soirée de Poésie II: Hélène Dorion will be at the Delta Centre-Ville Victoria. May 4 at 3:30 PM Reading in the Afternoon: Mary Soderstrom will be at the Delta Centre-Ville Vitré. Saturday, May 3 Elspeth Cameron will be giving a presentation at St. Anne’s Church, 270 Gladstone Avenue, Toronto, on the art of Frances Loring and Florence Wyle. Thursday, May 8 Zoe Whittall will be reading from Bottle Rocket Hearts at the Femme-tastic Toronto reading alongside Chandra Mayor and Debra Anderson. The reading will take place at The Toronto Women’s Bookstore, 73 Harbord Street, Toronto, between 7:00 and 9:00. New Reader's Guides and Excerpt PDFs from first chapters, prologues, etc. are now available for download on our Reader's Page. Enjoy. Michael Rowe's Other Men's Sons: Finalist for 2008 Randy Shilts Award for Gay Nonfiction and 20th Annual Lambda Literary Awards in the Arts & Culture and Non-Fiction categories. Michael Rowe's Other Men's Sons is a finalist for this year's Randy Shilts Award for Gay Nonfiction, presented by the Publishing Triangle, which recognizes books that have a significant influence upon the lives of gay men. Other Men's Sons has been nominated alongside Michael Sherry's Gay Artists in Modern American Culture (University of North Carolina Press) and Martin Duberman's The Worlds of Lincoln Kirstein (Alfred A. Knopf). Please visit www.publishingtriangle.org for more information. Other Men's Sons is also a finalist in two categories for the 20th Annual Lambda Literary Awards: LBGT Arts & Culture and LGBT Nonfiction. The Lambda Literary Awards seek to recognize excellence in the field of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender literature. Each year, over 80 judges ― writers, booksellers, librarians, journalists ― assess the entries in more than 20 categories. Please visit www.lambdaliterary.org for more information. Cormorant Books on the Top Lists Carol Bruneau's Glass Voices and Zoe Whittall's Bottle Rocket Hearts have both made The Globe and Mail Top 100 Books for 2007. Bottle Rocket Hearts also made Quill & Quire's Books of Year for 2007 and NOW Magazine's annual "Best of Toronto" named Zoe Whittall as Toronto's Best Emerging Author. Congratulations to Carol and Zoe. Cormorant has officially joined the Ancient Forest Friendly Publishers' Initiative, making a long-term commitment to printing our books on Ancient Forest Friendly paper. This commitment, recognized by Markets Initiative (www.marketsinitiative.org), ensures that Cormorant is a business dedicated to the protection of our boreal forests, and in the conservation of our environment.

Cheryl Freedman (secretary of Crime Writers of Canada) and sister on the ferry to Wolfe Island with Eric Wright.	Eric Wright and mystery writer Edward D. Hoch at The Wolfe Island Scene of the Crime Festival.	Author and co-founder of the Scene of the Crime Festival Violette Malan and author Lyn Hamilton with Eric Wright at the Scene of the Crime Festival.	Eric Wright signs a book for a fan.	Eric Wright and Canadian novelist and screenwriter Giles Blunt at The Wolfe Island Scene of the Crime Festival.

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Click to listen to Carole Giangrande discuss An Ordinary Star (wave, 27mb).

Click to listen to Darren Greer discuss Still Life With June (wave, 29.2mb).

Click to listen to Edward O. Phillips discuss A Voyage on Sunday (wave, 28.3mb).

Click to listen to Nino Ricci discuss Lives of The Saints (wave, 27.2mb).

Click to listen to Sheila Fischman discuss The Alien House (wave, 26.8mb).

Click to listen to Sky Gilbert discuss An English Gentleman (wave, 29.8mb)

Check out some photos from Cormorant Books' office warming party here .

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