by Attila Berki

House of Anansi Press announces restructuring

House of Anansi Press has announced a restructuring of the company, effective October 31, 2025. The restructuring includes the formation of a new board of directors and a change in the management of House of ... Read More »

October 8, 2025

Excerpt from Fan Mail: A Guide to What We Love, Loathe, and Mourn by Jason Guriel

By Attila Berki

Jason Guriel is the author of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction, including On Browsing, Forgotten Work, and The Full-Moon Whaling Chronicles. Excerpted from Fan Mail: A Guide to What We Love, Loathe, and Mourn by Jason ... Read More »

October 8, 2025

Karen Solie shortlisted for the 2025 T. S. Eliot Prize

By Attila Berki

Karen Solie has been nominated for the T. S. Eliot Prize for her 2025 collection Wellwater, published by House of Anansi Press in Canada and by Picador Poetry in the U.K. The £25,000 T. S. ... Read More »

October 7, 2025

Distribution change: Stelliform Press

By Attila Berki

LitDistCo has taken on Canadian distribution for Stelliform Press. Steliform Press was previously distributed by PGC ... Read More »

October 7, 2025

Excerpt from In the Field by Sadiqa de Meijer

By Attila Berki

SPIRIT MATERIALS When I find the envelope in the mailbox, its soft heft differs from a paper letter. Sweet arrival, another trapeze leap caught. For three years now, Amy and I have written to each ... Read More »

October 1, 2025

Bestsellers: Top 15 titles by Indigenous authors, September 14–20, 2025

By Attila Berki

September 24, 2025

Excerpt from Walking with Beth: Conversations with My Hundred-Year-Old Friend by Merilyn Simonds

By Attila Berki

For as long as she can remember, Beth has been making books. “Before I could write or even manage scissors, I tore white writing paper into small pieces, tucked them into an envelope, and, with ... Read More »

September 24, 2025

Personnel change: Dundurn Press

By Attila Berki

Akin Akinwumi is joining the acquisitions team at Dundurn Press and Rare Machines as editor-at-large. Akinwumi was formerly with Willenfield Literary Agency. Akinwumi will acquire ambitious, intellectually bold fiction and nonfiction, including rediscovered classics, with ... Read More »

September 24, 2025

David Szalay shortlisted for the 2025 Booker Prize

By Attila Berki

The Booker Prize announced it's shortlist of titles for the 2025 prize on Sept. 23. Montreal-born David Szalay is one of six shortlistees, for his novel Flesh, published in Canada by McClelland & Stewart. The ... Read More »

September 23, 2025

Shashi Bhat, Julie Morstad among 2025 BC and Yukon Book Prize winners

By Attila Berki

Authors Shashi Bhat and Julie Morstad were among the award winners honoured at the BC and Yukon Book Prizes in Vancouver on Sept. 21. The annual awards, now in their 41st year, are administered by ... Read More »

September 22, 2025

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House of Anansi Press announces restructuring

Excerpt from Fan Mail: A Guide to What We Love, Loathe, and Mourn by Jason Guriel

Karen Solie shortlisted for the 2025 T. S. Eliot Prize

Distribution change: Stelliform Press

Excerpt from In the Field by Sadiqa de Meijer

Bestsellers: Top 15 titles by Indigenous authors, September 14–20, 2025

Excerpt from Walking with Beth: Conversations with My Hundred-Year-Old Friend by Merilyn Simonds

Personnel change: Dundurn Press

David Szalay shortlisted for the 2025 Booker Prize

Shashi Bhat, Julie Morstad among 2025 BC and Yukon Book Prize winners

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