by Cassandra Drudi

Rights deals: Adriana Chartrand, Caroline Adderson + six more

House of Anansi Press’s Shirarose Wilensky has acquired world rights to Adriana Chartrand’s Discontinuity. The novel is described as a literary horror about two Saulteaux-Red River Métis cousins who become ensnared by a prairie-based agrarian-cult ... Read More »

September 24, 2026

Dave Margoshes wins 2026 Cheryl and Henry Kloppenburg Award for Literary Excellence

By Cassandra Drudi

Award-winning writer Dave Margoshes has been named the winner of the 2026 Cheryl and Henry Kloppenburg Award for Literary Excellence. The $10,000 annual prize, administered by the Saskatchewan Writers’ Guild, honours a Saskatchewan writer with ... Read More »

September 24, 2026

Personnel change: Penguin Random House Canada

By Cassandra Drudi

Laurie Graham has joined Penguin Random House Canada as senior editor, focusing on ... Read More »

September 24, 2026

Personnel changes: McClelland & Stewart

By Cassandra Drudi

Jordan Ginsberg has been promoted to executive editor at McClelland & Stewart. Ginsberg was first hired as an editor at Hazlitt in 2013, where under his stewardship the magazine garnered multiple National Magazine Awards. He then ... Read More »

September 23, 2026

Shortlist announced for 2026 Atwood Gibson Writers’ Trust Prize

By Cassandra Drudi

Five books – four of them debut novels – have been shortlisted for the 2026 Atwood Gibson Writers' Trust Fiction Prize. The winner of the annual prize recognizing the best short story collection or novel ... Read More »

September 23, 2026

Maria Reva, Julian Brave NoiseCat among winners of B.C. and Yukon Book Prizes

By Cassandra Drudi

Winners of the 2026 B.C. and Yukon Book Prizes were announced at a gala in Vancouver on Sept. 19. The annual awards, now in their 42nd year, are administered by the West Coast Book Prize ... Read More »

September 21, 2026

Distribution changes: Pentecostal Resources Group, Goose Lane Editions, D6 Family Ministries, Storyteller’s Forge, Doran Press

By Cassandra Drudi

International Publishers Group (IPG) has added five publishers to its sales and distribution programs this fall. IPG will now handle sales and distribution in Canada and the U.S. for Pentecostal Resources Group, D6 Family Ministries, Storyteller’s ... Read More »

September 21, 2026

Rights deal: Shalini Abeysekara

By Cassandra Drudi

Simon & Schuster Canada children’s editor Yashaswi Kesanakurthy and Margaret K. McElderry Books executive editor Sarah McCabe have acquired world English rights to Shalini Abeysekara’s The Art of Divine Villainy. The YA novel is described as ... Read More »

September 21, 2026

Rights deals: Emma Knight, Natalie Bride + two more

By Cassandra Drudi

Penguin Canada publisher Marion Garner and executive editor Lara Hinchberger have acquired Canadian rights to Emma Knight's Dolly. The novel is described as a meditation on marriage, infidelity, and motherhood set in the upper-class world ... Read More »

September 17, 2026

Gained in translation: Graphic novels

By Cassandra Drudi

The Conquest of the Cosmos By Alexandre Fontaine Rousseau and Francis Desharnais, ill.; translated by Pablo Strauss and Mary Thaler Pow Pow Press, available now The Conquest of the Cosmos is an irreverent look at ... Read More »

September 16, 2026

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