The Writers' Trust of Canada awarded $260,000 to seven Canadian authors at its annual awards gala at Toronto's Glenn Gould Studio on ... Read More »
Appetite by Random House publisher Robert McCullough and Doubleday Canada senior editor Tim Rostron have acquired world rights to The Kitchen: A Journey Through Time to Find the Perfect Design by Toronto architect John Ota. The title, about ... Read More »
November 16, 2017
Edgarland Films Inc. has acquired Richard Wagamese's award-winning 2014 novel, Medicine Walk, the story of a young Ojibway man's first – and last ... Read More »
November 15, 2017
P.S. Literary Agency's vice-president and senior literary agent Carly Watters will assume the additional position of director of literary branding, while digital and social media coordinator Amanda Schiffmann will take on the additional role of brand ... Read More »
November 15, 2017
Amazon acquires rights to forthcoming Lord of the Rings TV series. (Salon) A roundup of the best book-related TED talks from 2017. (BookRiot) Picture book The Hockey Sweater comes to the stage in new adaptation. (CBC Books) Simon ... Read More »
November 14, 2017 | Filed under: Book links
An LGBT volunteer-run library collection that began in Vancouver in 1983 has found a new home at the University of British Columbia's West Point Grey campus. Out on the Shelves, which opened to the public ... Read More »
November 13, 2017
HarperCollins senior vice-president and executive publisher Iris Tupholme has acquired world rights to Ottawa writer Anita Kushwaha's novel Asha & Mala, a work pitched through the #ownvoice campaign to increase diversity in publishing. The story follows a ... Read More »
November 13, 2017
Georgetown Publications, a Division of the Georgetown Group Limited, has announced the promotion of Rob Dawson to the position of managing director, effective immediately. Dawson, most recently the press's director of sales and marketing, will ... Read More »
November 13, 2017
A number of famous writers are opposed to Twitter's increased character limit. (Entertainment Weekly) Illinois bookseller runs for Congress. (Melville House) California is the first U.S. state to approve LGBT-inclusive history textbook in schools. (Los Angeles ... Read More »
November 13, 2017 | Filed under: Book links
Brick, the Toronto-based, internationally focused literary journal, celebrates its 40th anniversary this month with the publication of its 100th issue. A special section will focus on what makes and holds together a writing life, and will feature ... Read More »
November 13, 2017 | Filed under: Book news
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