by Cassandra Drudi

Jeff Lemire, Maurice Vellekoop, Elise Gravel among Canadian Eisner nominees

More than 10 Canadians have been nominated for the 2025 U.S. Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards. Jeff Lemire, Mariko Tamaki, Sid Sharp, Elise Gravel, Adam de Souza, David Lapp, Sarah Leavitt, Maurice Vellekoop, Alison McCreesh, ... Read More »

May 15, 2025

Rights deals: Louise K. Blight

By Cassandra Drudi

Pegasus Books publisher Claiborne Hancock has acquired U.S. rights, The Westbourne Press’s Lynn Gaspard has acquired U.K. & Commonwealth rights (ex. Canada and Oceania) and Europe and Middle East rights, and Random House Australia’s Meredith Curnow has acquired ... Read More »

May 15, 2025

Tessa McWatt

By Cassandra Drudi

Look to the elder: Tessa McWatt on snags, grief, and hope

May 14, 2025

Indie titles sweep 2025 LCP Book Awards

By Cassandra Drudi

Three poets have been named the winners of this year's LCP Book Awards. Each award carries a $2,000 prize. Marc Perez was named the winner of the Gerald Lampert Award for a debut book of ... Read More »

May 14, 2025

Canadian writer wins Commonwealth Short Story Prize for Canada and Europe

By Cassandra Drudi

For the second year in a row, a Canadian writer has been named the regional winner for Canada and Europe of the 2025 Commonwealth Short Story Prize. Chanel Sutherland was one of two Canadian writers ... Read More »

May 14, 2025

Margaret Atwood wins British Book Award for Freedom to Publish

By Cassandra Drudi

Margaret Atwood has been named the fourth recipient of the British Book Award for Freedom to Publish. The award, presented in partnership with the nonprofit Index on Censorship, honours an individual who has demonstrated "exceptional ... Read More »

May 12, 2025

Rights deals: Wendy H. Wong and Kevin Jagernauth

By Cassandra Drudi

Penguin Canada’s Nick Garrison and Marion Garner have acquired Canadian rights to Wendy H. Wong’s Mirrored States: How We Should Govern Big Tech. The nonfiction book is described as addressing Western democracies’ struggles to reign ... Read More »

May 12, 2025

Rights deals: Conor Kerr, Don Gillmor + 13 more

By Cassandra Drudi

Strange Light’s Jordan Ginsberg has acquired Canadian English rights to Conor Kerr’s Duck Blind. The novel is described as following a hunting guide and cigarette smuggler whose life spirals after the death of his boss, ... Read More »

May 8, 2025

Donna Seto on her deeply researched illustrated history of an iconic Vancouver neighbourhood

By Cassandra Drudi

When she headed onto the streets of Vancouver’s Chinatown in June 2021 with her camera, Donna Seto was taking a moment during the pandemic to look at an often-visited neighbourhood of her childhood from a ... Read More »

May 7, 2025