by Attila Berki

Canadians among winners of 2024 High Plains Book Awards

Seven Canadian authors and four books are among winners of the 17th High Plains Book Awards, announced on October 5 at Montana State University, Billings, Montana. The Canadian winners are: Art & Photography: Prairie Interlace: ... Read More »

October 10, 2024

Distribution change: Inhabit Books

By Attila Berki

Effective January 1, 2025, Inhabit Media’s Canadian sales and distribution will be handled by Iguttaq Distribution, a new, Inuit-owned book distributor, whose clients include Arvaaq Press, Nunavut Arctic College Media, and Eye of Newt Books. ... Read More »

October 9, 2024

2024 Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction shortlist announced

By Attila Berki

The finalists for the 2024 Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction have been announced by Wilfrid Laurier University. Established and endowed by the late writer and award-winning journalist Edna Staebler in 1991, the $10,000 prize ... Read More »

October 3, 2024

Personnel change: Hornblower Group

By Attila Berki

Nellwyn Lampert joins the Hornblower Group team starting Oct. 15, and will be working as an in house rep specializing in ... Read More »

October 3, 2024

Agency and distribution changes: CMU Press

By Attila Berki

CMU Press (Canadian Mennonite University) is in the process of entering distribution with LitDistCo in both the U.S. and Canada. (ISBN prefixes: 978-1-987986 and 978-0-920718.) Books are expected in stock at LitDistCo by December 2024 ... Read More »

October 2, 2024

Excerpt from The Audacity of Relevance: Critical Conversations on the Future of Arts and Culture

By Attila Berki

It was a bold and unprecedented undertaking, moving an entire fire truck into a staid and conventional book room. But bold and unprecedented were kind of the point for Calgary Public Library when it set ... Read More »

October 2, 2024

Personnel change: Read + Co Books

By Attila Berki

Erica Hendry joins the Read + Co Books team starting October 1 as a publishers representative in Western Canada, focussing on select accounts in the Lower Mainland and other parts of B.C. Hendry is based ... Read More »

September 30, 2024

Excerpt from Bad Artist: Creating in a Productivity-Obsessed World

By Attila Berki

I’m So Lazy, I Can’t Stop Crying I turn myself into a commodity, a walking list of accomplishments, future goals, prior achievements, lists of things to buy, make, work on, produce. By 2012, I’m working ... Read More »

September 25, 2024

Bill Slavin, Cherie Dimaline, Laberinto Press among winners of the 2024 Alberta Book Publishing Awards

By Attila Berki

The Book Publishers Association of Alberta (BPAA) announced the winners of the 2024 Alberta Book Publishing Awards at a gala in Edmonton on Sept. 24. Laberinto Press won Mel Hurtig Publisher of the Year for ... Read More »

September 25, 2024

Canadian publishers win multiple Ignatz Awards

By Attila Berki

Drawn & Quarterly and Pulping Collective garnered multiple Ignatz Awards at the independent comics convention Small Press Expo (SPX) in Maryland in mid-September. Jillian Tamaki and Mariko Tamaki added to their list of prizes for ... Read More »

September 25, 2024

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Canadians among winners of 2024 High Plains Book Awards

Distribution change: Inhabit Books

2024 Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction shortlist announced

Personnel change: Hornblower Group

Agency and distribution changes: CMU Press

Excerpt from The Audacity of Relevance: Critical Conversations on the Future of Arts and Culture

Personnel change: Read + Co Books

Excerpt from Bad Artist: Creating in a Productivity-Obsessed World

Bill Slavin, Cherie Dimaline, Laberinto Press among winners of the 2024 Alberta Book Publishing Awards

Canadian publishers win multiple Ignatz Awards

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