Baker & Taylor Publisher Services will provide sales and distribution in Canada and the U.S. for Amber Books, ... Read More »
August 12, 2024
Canadian novelists Anne Michaels and Claire Messud are among the 13 authors named to the longlist for the 2024 Booker Prize. The longlist for the £50,000 prize (worth about $88,000 Canadian) was announced on July ... Read More »
July 31, 2024
Edmonton sports writer Curtis Stock is one of three writers shortlisted for a U.S. literary award that honours the best books about thoroughbred racing. Stock’s The Turcottes: The Remarkable Story of a Horse Racing Dynasty ... Read More »
July 29, 2024
When Indigo Books and Music announced earlier this year that it had received an offer to go private, it was the latest in a long string of headlines for the bookstore chain. First, there was ... Read More »
July 17, 2024
The Access Copyright Foundation has announced the names of 35 creators and organizations from across Canada who have been awarded Marian Hebb Research Grants for 2024. The Marian Hebb Research Grant, one of three grant ... Read More »
July 17, 2024
Ursula K. Le Guin Foundation has announced its shortlist for the third annual Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction. Edmonton-based Premee Mohamed is one of 10 finalists for her novel The Siege of Burning ... Read More »
July 16, 2024
A new $1.5 million endowment, funded over 10 years, will enable the DC Reid Poets’ Grant, established through the Writers’ Trust of Canada in 2023, to provide annual grants to Canadian poets in perpetuity. The ... Read More »
July 16, 2024
The Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario has announced the shortlist for the annual Speaker’s Book Award. The shortlisted titles are: The Class: A Memoir of a Place, a Time and Us by Ken ... Read More »
July 15, 2024
McGill-Queen's University Press (MQUP) distribution, sales, and marketing operations will move to Combined Academic Publishers (CAP), a division of Mare Nostrum Group, in the following territories: U.K., Europe, the Middle East, and Africa, effective September ... Read More »
July 15, 2024
Canlit Responds, originally formed as the literary community's protest against charges laid against demonstrators who disrupted the 2023 Scotiabank Giller Prize over it's main sponsor's substantial investment in Israeli arms manufacturer Elbit Systems, has released ... Read More »
July 10, 2024
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