Youth Readership Promotion

Marquis and its division Laurentien actively promote youth readership across Canada by sponsoring literary awards, events and activities for more than 15 years.

Youth Category
Association des libraires du Québec

Marquis and its school agenda division,
Laurentien in collaboration with Sustana, sponsor and official presenter

This award promotes youth literature from Quebec and elsewhere and annually recognizes excellence in creative writing for young people. Marquis contributes by providing financial support and printing promotional material.
Major partner of the AQPF and ANEL,
in collaboration with Rolland

These prizes promote Quebec and Franco-Canadian literature among Quebec French teachers, stimulate their interest in these works and help their students to know and appreciate them. Marquis offers one prize to the winner in each of the five categories of youth literature and the printing of promotional material.

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Marquis sponsored a youth writing contest as part of the Salon du livre de l’Estrie book fair.

Our participation included both the contest itself and the awards ceremony, which took place during a special evening event.

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Marquis is the proud sponsor of the Youth Illustration Award.

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This program is beautifully simple. Once a week, during the school year, senior volunteers-readers visit a local school to read stories to children from 4 to 8 years-old.

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This local festival exposes the community to some of today’s best know and emerging Canadian authors, and aims at being a catalyst for local writers, including those dedicated to children’s literature.

Sponsor of the Sheila A. Egoff Children’s Literature Prize

Award given to the author of literary books aimed at juveniles and young adults.

Sponsor of the Children’s & Young Adult Book of the Year Award

These annual literary awards recognize and celebrate the best of the Alberta book publishing industry.

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This prize was created to recognize and promote literary achievements in the social sciences and humanities, including pedagody and education.