The Gland Factory: A Tour of Your Body's Goops, Juices, and Hormones by Rachel Poliquin, illustrated by Clayton Hanmer, and published by @GreystoneKids has been shortlisted for the 2025 SWCC Book Awards 📚🏆 in the Youth Category! 🔗sciencewriters.ca/2025-Book-…#SWCCBookAwards
ALT 2025 Book Awards Shortlist graphic featuring The Gland Factory: A Tour of Your Body's Goops, Juices, and Hormones by Rachel Poliquin, illustrated by Clayton Hanmer, in the Youth Category. The image includes the book cover showing a whimsical factory-themed illustration of the human body's glands, alongside author and illustrator portraits on a playful background patterned with cartoon cells.
Dad, Is It Time to Gather Mint? by Tyna Legault Taylor, illustrated by Michelle Dao and published by @highwaterpress, has been shortlisted for the 2025 SWCC Book Awards 📚🏆 in the Youth Category! Congratulations, Tyna and Michelle! 👏🌿🔗 sciencewriters.ca/2025-Book-…#SWCCBookAwards
ALT 2025 Book Awards Shortlist graphic featuring Dad, Is It Time to Gather Mint? by Tyna Legault Taylor and Michelle Dao in the Youth Category. The image shows the book cover, depicting an adult and child gathering mint outdoors, alongside author portraits on a nature-themed background with illustrated tree branches and leaves.
Congratulations to Dr. Keriann McGoogan, whose book Sisters of the Jungle: The Trailblazing Women Who Shaped the Study of Wild Primates, published by Douglas & McIntyre, has been shortlisted for the 2025 SWCC Book Awards 📷
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Congratulations to Roz MacLean, her children's book Together, a Forest: Drawing Connections Between Nature's Diversity and Our Own published by @HenryHolt has been shortlisted for the 2025 SWCC Book Awards 📷 📷 in the Youth Category! 📷 l1nq.com/nhe6c36#SWCCBookAwards
ALT 2025 Book Awards Shortlist graphic featuring Webb's Cosmos by Marcin Sawicki. The image includes the book cover showing a colourful deep-space scene from the James Webb Space Telescope alongside an author headshot on a pink, starry background.
Join SWCC for a workshop on trauma-informed science communication. Learn practical strategies for communicating scientific topics with clarity, empathy, & accuracy, while maintaining scientific integrity.✍️
🗓️ August 13 l 5 pm ET
RSVP🔗: sciencewriters.ca/event-6756…#TraumaInformed
ALT Event poster for SWCC August Member Meetup. Title: 'Trauma-informed science communication: A virtual workshop on strategies for inclusive engagement.' Features a photo of speakers Drs. Sandhya Mylabathula and Swapna Mylabathula smiling together. Event details: August 13, 2026 at 5 pm ET via Zoom. Dark teal background with green and white text, SWCC logo in bottom right corner.
📣 SWCC members: Last call!
Help shape future SWCC events, professional development opportunities, and member benefits by completing our short survey.
⏱️ Less than 10 minutes
📅 Closes Tuesday, July 21, 2026, at 11:59 p.m. ET
Share your feedback:
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ALT Promotional graphic for the Science Writers and Communicators of Canada (SWCC) membership survey. The design features a light grey background with teal accents, a green megaphone icon in the upper left, and a calendar and clock illustration in the lower right. Large text reads: "Attention SWCC Members. Last chance to share your feedback!" A partially filled progress bar appears below, followed by the message: "Help shape the future of your SWCC membership!" The graphic notes that the survey closes Tuesday, July 21, 2026, at 11:59 p.m. ET and includes a green button labelled "Take the survey now!" indicating this is the final opportunity for members to participate.
ALT Graphic promoting the 2025 Book Awards shortlist in the General Category. At the top, large text reads “2025 Book Awards Shortlist” and “General Category” on a dark teal background. The centre of the graphic features the book cover of Meltdown: The Making and Breaking of a Field Scientist by Sarah Boon. The cover shows an icy glacier landscape with two small figures on the snow and the title “MELTDOWN” in large white letters. Above the book cover is a circular author photo set against a mountain backdrop. To the right of the cover, text reads “Meltdown” and “Sarah Boon.” A stylized mountain illustration in pale pink spans the bottom of the graphic on a light grey background.
Meet our last 2025 SWCC Book Awards 📚 Youth Award Judge: Jana Levison. A professional engineer and University of Guelph professor, Jana studies groundwater resources💧 and the impacts of agriculture and climate change on water systems.
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ALT Graphic with a teal and light grey background reading “Meet the Book Awards Jury!” at the top. A headshot is shown on the left inside a green border, depicting a person. On the right, text reads “Jana Levison, Youth Award Judge.” The SWCC logo appears in the bottom right corner.
Meet our next 2025 SWCC Book Awards 📚 Youth Award Judge: Nikki Berreth. Working in science communication 🧪 and knowledge translation 📖 for a local First Nation, Nikki loves discovering new ideas and approaches to science storytelling.
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ALT Graphic with a teal and light grey background reading “Meet the Book Awards Jury!” at the top. A headshot is shown on the left inside a green border, depicting Nikki Berreth. On the right, text reads “Nikki Berreth, Youth Award Judge.” The SWCC logo appears in the bottom right corner.
ALT "The dark blue banner at the top reads: ""The 2025 SWCC Book Awards Submission Deadline Extended"". Green text in the bottom half of the banner reads, ""New Deadline: Nov 7, 2025"".
Below is an image of the 2024 Book Awards entries on a bookshelf, with a brick wall in the background. The books are in all different colors, leaning slightly to the left."
ALT Graphic titled “2025 Book Awards Shortlist” by SWCC. Two sections: “General Category” featuring three book covers—Meltdown by Sarah Boon, Webb’s Cosmos by Marcin Sawicki, and Sisters of the Jungle by Kieran McGoogan; and “Youth Category” featuring Together, a Forest by Roz MacLean, Dad, Is It Time to Gather Mint? by Tyna Legault Taylor and Michelle Dao, and The Gland Factory by Rachel Poliquin. Clean layout on a teal and light grey background.
We kicked off Day 1 of #SWCC2026 in Tiohtià:ke | Montréal! 🎉
Conference Chair Tara Wood opened with a warm welcome to our 200+ delegates and thanked our sponsors for their support. 1/5
We were then treated to a masterclass on storytelling by Johanne Pelletier (Concordia University), who explored what happens when the tools of storytelling meet the demands of science, followed by a lively Q&A.
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SWCC President Lucas Kavanagh reminded us why this community matters, and thanked the volunteers who keep it running.
And we're just getting started, here's to two days of discovery, dialogue, and decision. More to come! 👀
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#SWCC2026 is here! 🎉 Two days of presentations, workshops, and networking in Montréal — made possible by our incredible sponsors.
Discovery. Dialogue. Decision. See you in Montréal! 🙏 #SciComm
See you at #SWCC2026 in Montréal next week! Stop by the Book Awards booth to browse incredible Canadian science books, enter our biggest giveaway yet🎉, and catch the live shortlist reveal. 🔗Visit us online for more: sciencewriters.ca/2025-Book-…#SWCCBookAwards#SciComm
ALT Promotional graphic for SWCC Montréal 2026 Conference (June 15–16, Montréal, QC) featuring a row of colorful science books and text announcing: “SWCC Book Awards Booth is Back! Book Giveaway, Shortlist Announcement, Browse Science Books.”
ALT Graphic reading "SWCC Book Awards Annual Book Giveaway" with a green line-art illustration of books tied with a ribbon, on a teal background. SWCC logo bottom left.
📚Meet the Book Awards Jury! 📚
Amy Lemay is a science analyst and researcher supporting innovation in Canada’s agrifood sector. She’s the founder of VISTA Science & Technology and an Adjunct Professor at Brock University.
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How does sovereignty shape Arctic communities and how can the media report on the climate, community and cultural impacts of these developments? Join this virtual discussion tomorrow to find out more from independent journalists based in in Canada’s territories.