by Attila Berki

Canadians among 2023 Lambda Literary Award finalists

Finalists in 25 categories were announced for the 2023 Lambda Literary Awards, and a number of Canadian authors, including Danny Ramadan, John Brady McDonald, and Angeline Jackson, were among those shortlisted. The winners will be ... Read More »

March 15, 2023

New art book gives textile artist Mariette Rousseau-Vermette her overdue recognition

By Attila Berki

As a former educator and researcher-writer at the National Gallery of Canada (NGC), Anne Newlands is all too familiar with the way women’s art has been historically undervalued and under-represented on the walls and in ... Read More »

March 15, 2023

New Society Publishers shortlisted for LBF’s international Sustainability Initiative Award

By Attila Berki

New Society Publishers is one of three publishers shortlisted for the inaugural Sustainability Initiative Award, an International Excellence Award presented by the London Book Fair. The new prize aims to acknowledge organizations championing environmental efforts in publishing. ... Read More »

March 15, 2023

Personnel changes: Ontario Arts Council

By Attila Berki

The Ontario Arts Council has announced a number of staffing changes. Jack Illingworth leaves the position of literature officer on February 28, 2023, to take on role of executive director at the Association of Canadian ... Read More »

February 15, 2023

Canadian nominees announced for 2023 Bologna Prize

By Attila Berki

For the second year in a row, Owlkids has been nominated for the Bologna Prize for the Best Children’s Publishers of the Year for North America. Orca Book Publishers and La courte échelle round out ... Read More »

February 8, 2023

Louise Dennys on her new role as publisher emerita

By Attila Berki

Louise Dennys would like to make one thing absolutely clear about her recent change in job title at her employer, Penguin Random House Canada: she is not retiring. “Penguin Random House and Kristin didn’t want ... Read More »

February 1, 2023

Rights Deals: Omayra Issa, Gloria Blizzard + three more

By Attila Berki

McClelland & Stewart’s Haley Cullingham has acquired North American rights to Omayra Issa’s Untitled in a two-book deal at auction. The nonfiction book is described as an archival work of creative nonfiction that explores identity, ... Read More »

January 30, 2023

Jury announced for inaugural Carol Shields Prize for Fiction

By Attila Berki

The Carol Shields Prize for Fiction has announced the jury for the inaugural award. It includes Canadian authors Anita Rau Badami, Merilyn Simonds, and katherena vermette, and American authors Monique Truong and Crystal Wilkinson. The ... Read More »

January 26, 2023

2023 Spring Preview: Nonfiction, Part two

By Attila Berki

A fresh crop of memoirs examine the complicated realities of families. Just Once, No More: On Fathers, Sons, and Who We Are Until We Are No Longer Charles Foran Knopf, April ... Read More »

January 25, 2023

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