by Attila Berki

Creators and organizations awarded 2024 Marian Hebb Research Grants

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

Premee Mohamed shortlisted for 2024 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction

By Attila Berki

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

Endowment for the Writers’ Trust of Canada’s DC Reid Poets’ Grant substantially increased

By Attila Berki

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

Ontario Speaker’s Book Award 2024 shortlist announced

By Attila Berki

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

Agency and distribution changes: McGill-Queen’s University Press

By Attila Berki

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

Authors withdraw from 2024 Scotiabank Giller Prize and participation in Giller Foundation programming

By Attila Berki

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

Alice Munro: A darkened legacy

By Attila Berki

In an exclusive story published on July 7 by the Toronto Star’s Deborah Dundas and Betsy Powell, accompanied by a personal essay by Andrea Robin Skinner, revelations that Skinner was sexually abused by her stepfather, Gerald ... Read More »

July 10, 2024

Deals: Karma Brown, Dalton Higgins + two more

By Attila Berki

Simon & Schuster Canada’s Brittany Lavery and Dutton’s Maya Ziv have acquired Canadian and U.S, rights respectively to internationally bestselling author Karma Brown’s horror debut The Mother. The novel is described as centering on an ... Read More »

July 9, 2024

Rights deals: Angela Sterritt, Martha Bátiz + 3 more

By Attila Berki

Greystone Books editorial director Jennifer Croll has acquired world rights to Angela Sterritt’s Breakable. The nonfiction book is described as an investigation of how racism and colonialism cultivates harmful behaviours in men and how Indigenous ... Read More »

July 5, 2024

Shortlists for 2024 Alberta Book Publishing Awards announced

By Attila Berki

The Book Publishers Association of Alberta (BPAA) announced the shortlists for the 2024 Alberta Book Publishing Awards on June 27. The awards highlight the best of Alberta book publishing as determined by industry professionals from ... Read More »

July 3, 2024

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