by Attila Berki

Kingston WritersFest announces successful fundraising campaign and steps to resurrect festival

Kingston WritersFest announced on March 10 that a fundraising Angel Campaign has raised enough funds to address the financial obligations of the 2024 festival and thanked the “Kingston community and book lovers across Canada” for ... Read More »

March 11, 2025

Address change: Kingston WritersFest

By Attila Berki

Kingston WritersFest has a new mailing address: 221 Queen ... Read More »

March 11, 2025

Al & Eurithe Purdy Poetry Prize longlist for 2025 announced

By Attila Berki

The Al Purdy A-Frame Association (APAFA) has announced a longlist of ten titles for the second annual Al & Eurithe Purdy Poetry Prize. The $10,000 prize honours the most outstanding new poetry book published in ... Read More »

March 11, 2025

Stanley Munn and Patricia Cucman win the 2025 Basil Stuart-Stubbs Prize

By Attila Berki

Stanley Munn and Patricia Cucman have been named the winners of the 2025 Basil Stuart-Stubbs Prize for To See What He Saw: J.E.H. Macdonald and the O’Hara Years, 1924–1932, published by Figure 1 Publishing. The ... Read More »

March 10, 2025

Agency and distribution change: Sterling Publishing/Union Square & Co.

By Attila Berki

As of March 21, 2025, Hachette Book Group will become the vendor of record for all of Sterling Publishing/Union Square & Co. All sales, order processing, billing/collection, fulfillment and returns processing will be handled by ... Read More »

March 10, 2025

Sofia Ajram garners two nominations for Bram Stoker Awards

By Attila Berki

Montreal-based author Sofia Ajram has been nominated in two categories for the Horror Writers Association 2024 Bram Stoker Awards. Ajram is shortlisted for Coup de Grâce (Titan Books) in the long fiction category and as ... Read More »

February 28, 2025

Personnel changes: CookeMcDermid

By Attila Berki

Stephanie Anderson has been promoted to contracts and operations manager ... Read More »

February 26, 2025

Frye Festival announces Antonine Maillet tribute in Moncton

By Attila Berki

The Frye Festival has announced a literary tribute celebrating the life and work of Acadian writer and scholar Antonine Maillet, who died on February 17 at the age of 95. The event will take place ... Read More »

February 26, 2025

Indie booksellers Fincher’s and Forster’s Book Garden to close

By Attila Berki

Two Ontario independent booksellers are closing their doors in 2025. Forster's Book Garden in Bolton, Ontario, is closing at the end of February. The store founded and owned by Donna and Paul Forster opened in ... Read More »

February 19, 2025

Excerpt from Books and the City: Psychogeographical Wanderings Around Toronto’s Independent Bookstores

By Attila Berki

I have really grown to love Toronto. No doubt I wouldn’t feel the same if I actually lived here, but for an impromptu break every so often, it is perfect. The city is unassuming, welcoming, and full ... Read More »

February 12, 2025

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