by Attila Berki

QWF Literary Awards 2024 shortlists announced

The Quebec Writers’ Federation has announced the finalists for the 2024 QWF Literary Awards. The QWF Literary Awards honour the best of English-language literature in Quebec. The winners in eight categories – poetry, fiction, non-fiction, ... Read More »

October 16, 2024

Personnel change: University of Alberta Press

By Attila Berki

Cathie Crooks has been named interim director and publisher at the University of Alberta Press. Currently the ... Read More »

October 16, 2024

Canadians among winners of 2024 High Plains Book Awards

By Attila Berki

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 Media

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

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