by Attila Berki

Agency and distribution changes: CMU Press

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

Banff Mountain Book Competition 2024 finalists announced

By Attila Berki

The shortlists for the 2024 Banff Mountain Book Competition have been announced by Banff Centre Mountain Film and Book Festival. The eight prizes in the competition celebrate mountain literature in all its forms: mountain literature ... Read More »

September 20, 2024

2023 SWCC Book Awards announced

By Attila Berki

The Science Writers and Communicators of Canada announced the winners of the 2023 SWCC Book Awards on Sept. 17 at the association’s annual AGM. The prizes recognize outstanding contributions to science writing by Canadians. The winner of ... Read More »

September 19, 2024

Victoria’s Orca Book Publishers marks 40th year

By Attila Berki

When Bob Tyrrell founded Orca Book Publishers in 1984, it was not with the plan to become a children’s book publisher. Orca’s first title was a guide to Vancouver Island’s pubs co-authored by Tyrrell and ... Read More »

September 18, 2024