Montreal author Lee Lai wins 2026 Doug Wright Award for best comic
Prizes for best emerging talent, small or micro-press book and kids book were also awarded at a ceremony in Toronto.
https://www.cbc.ca/books/montreal-author-lee-lai-wins-2026-doug-wright-award-for-best-comic-9.7227125?cmp=rss

Pluralistic: Lee Lai's "Cannon" (08 May 2026)

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://pluralistic.net/2026/05/08/gung-gung/

Pluralistic: Lee Lai’s “Cannon” (08 May 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

Shortlist Announced for the $150,000 Carol Shields Prize for Fiction

The award is the world’s largest English-language literary prize for women and non-binary writers.
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https://publishingperspectives.com/2026/04/shortlist-announced-for-the-150000-carol-shields-prize-for-fiction/

#bookawards #Canada #CarolShieldsPrizeforFiction #JuliaElliott #LeeLai

Shortlist Announced for the $150,000 Carol Shields Prize for Fiction - Publishing Perspectives

The award is the world’s largest English-language literary prize for women and non-binary writers. 

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The longlist for the 2026 Stella Prize literary award

Twelve titles have been included on the longlist for this year's Stella Prize, the Australian literary award recognising the work of women and non-binary writers. 58 Facets: On violence and the law, by Marika Sosnowski Ankami, by Debra Dank Apron-Sorrow / Sovereign-Tea, by Natalie Harkin Cannon, by Lee Lai Find Me at the Jaffa Gate: An Encyclopaedia of a Palestinian family, by Micaela Sahhar Fireweather, by Miranda Darling I Am Nannertgarrook, by Tasma Walton KONTRA, by Eunice […]

https://disassociated.com/longlist-2026-stella-prize-literary-award/

The longlist for the 2026 Stella Prize literary award

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L’importanza del cibo e delle piccole cose: in conversazione con Lee Lai

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://fumettologica.it/2026/01/cannon-lee-lai-intervista-fumetti/

#WebComicTalk Q5: What webcomics out there have unique writing or art styles that you think more people should read?

Forming by #JesseMoynihan
#EmilyCarroll for horror.
Mini comics by #LeeLai
#TommiParrish for painted panels and odd proportions.
#ETRussian for poetry and multi-sensory work.
#MitaMahato for grief, poetry, environment, and cut paper.
#JesseSimpson for fucked up shit.
#WrenMcDonald for futuristic action.

SO many incredible artists…

Most of these are #IndieComics artists.

13 books I read in 2022 that lingered in me (no particular order):
BodyWork by #MelissaFebos
Notes from a Sick Bed by #TessaBrunton
Orwell’s Roses by #RebeccaSolnit
Light from Uncommon Stars by #RykaAoki
Time Zone J by #JulieDoucet
Margaret and the Mystery of the Missing Body by #MeganMilks
Siren Queen by #NghiVo
Dead Collections by #IsaacFellman
Stone Fruit by #LeeLai
Destroyer of Light by #JenniferMarieBrissett
Night Bus by #ZuoMa
Four Lost Cities by #AnnaleeNewitz
The Unbroken by #CLClark