by Attila Berki

Canadian Children’s Book Centre 2023 awards shortlists announced

The Canadian Children’s Book Centre (CCBC) has announced the finalists for seven awards celebrating best Canadian books for young people. The prizes are: TD Canadian Children’s Literature Award ($50,000); Marilyn Baillie Picture Book Award ($20,000); ... Read More »

September 12, 2023

Victoria Book Prize finalists announced for 2023

By Attila Berki

Shortlists for the 2023 City of Victoria Book Prize and City of Victoria Children’s Book Prize were announced by the Victoria Book Prize Society. The finalists for the City of Victoria Butler Book Prize are: ... Read More »

September 8, 2023

Indigo CEO Peter Ruis leaving company

By Attila Berki

CEO Peter Ruis has resigned from Indigo Books & Music just as the company is gearing up for the launch of its new store concept this month. Indigo announced Ruis's departure on September 7, and ... Read More »

September 7, 2023

Rights Deals: Roz Nay, Waubgeshig Rice + one more

By Attila Berki

Penguin Canada executive editor Lara Hinchberger has acquired Canadian English rights to Roz Nay’s The Offing and a second, unnamed book. The thriller is described as following two friends on a dream-vacation-turned-nightmare on the beautiful but ... Read More »

September 5, 2023

Rights Deals: James Yekú, Natasha Kanapé Fontaine + 3 more

By Attila Berki

Griots Lounge Publishing Canada’s publisher Bibi Ukonu has acquired Canadian rights to James Yekú’s Unruly Encounters: Essays. The nonfiction collection is described as speaking from the author’s personal experiences as a writer and academic living ... Read More »

September 1, 2023

Shop Talk: Cross & Crows Books

By Attila Berki

Shop Talk is an occasional feature in which fledgling independent booksellers take Q&Q into their stores and share their reasons for opening and what business has been like so far. Cross & Crows Books 2836 ... Read More »

August 30, 2023

Susan Musgrave and Sue Sinclair shortlisted for the 2022 Derek Walcott Poetry Prize

By Attila Berki

Two Canadians are among the 15 finalists for this year's Derek Walcott Poetry Prize: B.C. poet Susan Musgrave for her collection Exculpatory Lilies (McClelland & Stewart/Penguin Random House Canada), which was shortlisted for the 2023 ... Read More »

August 28, 2023

Rights Deals: Sylvia McNicoll, Nina Berkhout + ten more

By Attila Berki

DCB publisher Barry Jowett has acquired English in North America rights to Sylvia McNicoll’s Blue to the Sky. The middle grade novel is described as the story of Ella, who, after six years of homeschooling ... Read More »

August 28, 2023

The Booker effect in Canada

By Attila Berki

This year’s Booker Prize longlist includes two titles for which independent presses have Canadian rights. This is also the third time since 2019 that Windsor, Ontario, indie Biblioasis has held North American rights to a ... Read More »

August 23, 2023

Excerpt: In Defence of Copyright

By Attila Berki

The following is an excerpt from In Defence of Copyright by Hugh Stephens (Cormorant Books, August 2023) Copyright has been developed over the past three hundred years, drawing on both a utilitarian, economic rationale rooted ... Read More »

August 23, 2023

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Canadian Children’s Book Centre 2023 awards shortlists announced

Victoria Book Prize finalists announced for 2023

Indigo CEO Peter Ruis leaving company

Rights Deals: Roz Nay, Waubgeshig Rice + one more

Rights Deals: James Yekú, Natasha Kanapé Fontaine + 3 more

Shop Talk: Cross & Crows Books

Susan Musgrave and Sue Sinclair shortlisted for the 2022 Derek Walcott Poetry Prize

Rights Deals: Sylvia McNicoll, Nina Berkhout + ten more

The Booker effect in Canada

Excerpt: In Defence of Copyright

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