Every Friday, the PQ Weekly Roundup collects the most shared links in our social media network—bookish articles, reviews, quizzes, recommendations and more—in convenient digest form.

• Some changes are afoot at the Griffin Poetry Prize. They’ve decided to combine its Canadian and international categories into a single award, valued at $130,000. (Put another way, they are essentially eliminating the Canadian Poetry category.)

• This is a truly fascinating long read about the differing schools of thought on how literacy ought to be taught to children. I never realized they could be shockingly experimental.

• This is fun: Sink your teeth into some juicy literary scandals.

• We’ve heard about book bans, but have you heard about efforts to defund libraries that have resisted efforts to purge collections of books deemed “offensive” (generally due to LGBTQ or racial themes)?

• The Giller Prize announced its longlist this week. Be sure to stay tuned for the winner announcement in November!

That’s it for this week’s literary link roundup. If you find yourself in the GTA this weekend and are looking for some good bookish fun, stop by the Fisher Small & Fine Press Fair on Saturday, 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. We will be there with new PQL releases for you to add to your collection!

See you there,