by Attila Berki

BPAA celebrates 50th anniversary and the 2025 Alberta Book Publishing Awards

The Book Publishers Association of Alberta (BPAA) handed out the annual Alberta Book Publishing Awards at a gala reception in Calgary on Sept. 18. The event also celebrated the 50th anniversary of the association, which ... Read More »

September 19, 2025

2025 Banff Mountain Book Competition finalists announced

By Attila Berki

The Banff Centre Mountain Film and Book Festival, which is celebrating its 50th anniversary this fall, has announced the finalists in the 2025 Banff Mountain Book Competition. Eight category awards are presented, plus a grand ... Read More »

September 18, 2025

Personnel change: Heritage Group Distribution

By Attila Berki

As of Sept. 12, Don Gorman has stepped down as the director of sales and national accounts for Heritage Group Distribution (HGD), a position he held for 20 years, working with the imprints of Heritage ... Read More »

September 17, 2025

Finalists for first DC Reid Poetry Book Prize and Victoria Book Prizes announced

By Attila Berki

The Victoria Book Prize Society has announced the shortlist for the inaugural DC Reid Poetry Book Prize. The $5,000 prize is awarded to a writer from the Capital Regional District for the best book of ... Read More »

September 17, 2025

First Nation Communities READ 2025-2026 shorlists announced

By Attila Berki

The First Nation Communities READ program has announced this year's shortlists for the Children’s and Young Adult/Adult categories for the best works of Indigenous literature from Canada. The five titles shortlisted in each category are ... Read More »

September 11, 2025

Excerpt from A Precarious Enterprise: Making a Life in Canadian Publishing by Scott McIntyre

By Attila Berki

One strand of fiction was important to me: younger writers from Quebec. Perhaps I was overly influenced by my two years at M&S viewing, even if from a distance, Quebec’s metaphorical coming of age. I’d ... Read More »

September 10, 2025

Lyse Doucet longlisted for 2025 Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction

By Attila Berki

Journalist Lyse Doucet is the lone Canadian named to the longlist for the 2025 Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction. Doucet, who is chief international correspondent for the BBC, is nominated for The Finest Hotel in Kabul: ... Read More »

September 4, 2025

CIBA launches The Booksellers’ List marketing initiative

By Attila Berki

On Sept. 1, the Canadian Independent Booksellers Association (CIBA) launched its inaugural The Booksellers’ List, a new marketing initiative that highlights the titles most anticipated by Canada’s indie bookstores for the fall 2025 season. The ... Read More »

September 3, 2025

Excerpt from Wrestling with Cadence: Essays on Writing and Intuition by Dennis Lee

By Attila Berki

I was sitting with friends in a small Toronto restaurant, just off Yorkville Avenue. This was back in the 1970s. And something happened that would become a touchstone in my writing. As the four of ... Read More »

September 3, 2025

Rights deals: Diane Borsato + 1 more

By Attila Berki

Chronicle Books’s Mirabelle Korn has acquired world rights to Diane Borsato’s Dessert Club: A Sweet Tooth’s Guide to the World, From Mille-Feuilles to Mochi Donuts. The nonfiction book is described as a field guide to ... Read More »

September 2, 2025

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