Press and Reviews

Podcast, Radio, and TV Appearances

Featured on Global News Vancouver, CBC’s The Next Chapter, North by Northwest, On the Coast, The Early Edition

CBC: The Next Chapter (Mar 2026)
CBC: The Next Chapter (Oct 2024)
CBC: Commotion with Elamin Abdelmahmoud
CBC: North by Northwest
CBC: Afternoon Drive with Matt Allen
How I Wrote This
Writing the Coast
QueerFM
Global News Vancouver
CBC Radio London Morning with Andrew Brown

Profiles and Interviews

“Debut Novel Blends Wartime History with Non-Binary Love Story” Kim Mah, The Writer’s Studio
“Listening with Loghan” by Dayna Mahannah, Geist Magazine, Issue 131
“The Breakouts 2025: Author Loghan Paylor weaves a fantastical history they could see themselves in” V.S. Wells, The Georgia Straight
“Giller Prize Spotlight: Loghan Paylor”
“Truth in historical fiction: Can a novel reveal the unseen faces of the Second World War?” Tyler Olsen, Fraser Valley Current
“For Loghan Paylor, the challenges of writing are solved on a forest trail,” CBC Arts
“Fraser Valley Writers Festival: Author Profile Loghan Paylor”
“Loghan Paylor’s The Cure for Drowning centres untold queer and trans stories in Canadian history,” CBC Books, Mar 24, 2026
“CBC Books’ writers to watch: 30 Canadian writers making their mark in 2024” CBC Books

Praise and Reviews

“Review of ‘The Cure for Drowning’ by Loghan Paylor” Lucy E. M. Black, The Miramichi Reader
“Queer love story at the centre of new Canadian historical novel” Dana Gee, Vancouver Sun
“Wartime Canadian romance, an LGBTQ love story and a reckoning of fate and destiny” Brett Josef Grubisic, Toronto Star
“A ‘soap opera in the best way possible’ ” Jessica Poon, The British Columbia Review
“Otonabee: Books to read this spring” Joanne Culley, The Peterborough Examiner
“The Cure for Drowning by Loghan Paylor” Wendy Hawkin, The Ottawa Review of Books
“Reviewer Glenn Perrett discusses books by Loghan Paylor, Nora Roberts and C.L. Miller” Metroland Media
“SAD Bookclub: The Cure for Drowning by Loghan Paylor” by Tova Gaster, SAD Mag
“Pride Month Editor’s Picks!” The Miramichi Reader
“Canada Reads, Pick These!” St Thomas Public Library

Prizes and Longlists

The Cure for Drowning by Loghan Paylor wins Canada Reads 2026
28 writers from across Canada make 2025 CBC Nonfiction Prize longlist
The Canada Reads 2026 Longlist is here
Canada Reads winner Loghan Paylor among finalists for $20K Rakuten Kobo Emerging Writer Prize
Meet the Canada Reads 2026 Contenders
“Finalists announced for 2025 B.C. and Yukon Book Prizes” Cassandra Drudi, Quill & Quire
“12 Canadian books make 2024 longlist for $100K Giller Prize” CBC Books

Book Lists

#1 Canadian Bestseller, Canada Reads 2026 Winner, Globe and Mail Best Book 2024

“The Globe 100: The best books of 2024” The Globe and Mail
“76 Notable Debuts by Trans, Nonbinary, and Gender Non-Conforming Authors in 2024” Jen St. Jude, Chicago Review of Books
“The Best Queer Books of 2024” Casey Stepaniuk, Autostraddle
“The best Canadian fiction of 2024” CBC Books
“The CBC Books fall reading list: 51 books to check out this season” CBC Books
“Oh, Queer Canada: A Reading List for Americans in Search of LGBTQ Canadian History” Rose Sutherland, Literary Hub
“35 Books for Pride month by writers in Canada” CBC Books
“10 historical fiction books to transport you this summer” CBC Books
“8 books to read if you loved Etta and Otto and Russell and James by Emma Hooper” CBC Books

Panels and Lectures

Giller Book Club: “We Love You, Bunny” with Mona Awad
Giller Book Club: “The Cure for Drowning” with Wayne Grady

Miscellaneous

“Ten Canadian Authors on the Writing Advice That Changed Their Life” by Carly Fleming, Read Local BC
“10 authors featured at Fraser Valley Writers Festival” Mission City Record
Giller-longlisted novelist coming to Orillia for Big Read Finale” Orillia Matters
“Canadian authors remember Alice Munro and her literary legacy” CBC Books
Application for Writers in the Classroom 2025 Now Open, Vancouver Writers Fest