by Attila Berki

Rights Deals: Téa Mutonji, Kagiso Lesego Molope + five more

Random House Canada’s Sarah Jackson and Sue Kuruvilla have acquired Canada, English rights to Téa Mutonji’s novel, My Person as part of a two-book, six-figure deal. The novel is described as relaying, in a deeply ... Read More »

March 12, 2024

Catherine Leroux’s The Future wins 2024 Canada Reads

By Attila Berki

The 2024 Canada Reads battle of the books concluded with The Future by Catherine Leroux, translated by Susan Ouriou and championed by novelist Heather O’Neill, named as the winner. The novel, published last fall, is only ... Read More »

March 7, 2024

Agency and distribution change: Anthology Editions

By Attila Berki

Effective May 1, 2024, Hornblower Group will handle national sales for ... Read More »

March 4, 2024

Personnel change: Ampersand Inc.

By Attila Berki

Colin Rier has joined Ampersand Inc. as an account manager as of Feb. 22. He is based out of the ... Read More »

February 27, 2024

Winners of 2021–2022 Lane Anderson Award for Canadian science writing announced

By Attila Berki

The Fitzhenry Family Foundation has announced the winners of the 2021–2022 Lane Anderson Award. Michael Henry is the adult prize winner for Ontario’s Old-Growth Forests, published by Fitzhenry & Whiteside, and Jennifer Gardy is the ... Read More »

February 14, 2024

Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction 2023 shortlist announced

By Attila Berki

Two finalists have been named for the $10,000 Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction for 2023 by Wilfrid Laurier University, which administers the prize. The 2023 finalists are authors Cody Caetano for Half-Bads in White ... Read More »

February 2, 2024

Excerpt from Toward an Anti-Racist Poetics

By Attila Berki

When I first began to think of myself as a writer, in my teenage years, I did what many artists of colour have done: I mimicked the dominant forms I encountered in school. This is ... Read More »

January 31, 2024

Tanya Tagaq shortlisted for Gordon Burn Prize

By Attila Berki

Tanya Tagaq's novel Split Tooth has been shortlisted for the 2023–24 Gordon Burn Prize. The U.K.-based Gordon Burn Prize recognizes innovative and “forward-thinking” literature that pushes boundaries in content, style, or genre, and engages ... Read More »

January 29, 2024

Publishers, editors, and writers named to the Order of Canada

By Attila Berki

Governor General Mary Simon announced the 2023 appointments to the Order of Canada on December 28, 2023. Several publishers, editors, and writers were among the 78 individuals honoured. The Order of Canada recognizes people across ... Read More »

January 4, 2024