September 20, 2023
HarperCollins Canada’s Iris Tupholme has acquired Canadian English rights in a pre-empt and Union Square Press’s Claire Wachtel has acquired world English rights, excluding Canada, to bestselling author Shelley Wood’s The Leap Year Gene. The ... Read More »
September 18, 2023
Newfoundland writer Wayne Johnston has been named the winner of the 2023 Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour. Johnston was named the winner of this year's prize for his memoir, Jennie's Boy: A Newfoundland Childhood (Knopf ... Read More »
September 18, 2023
Just over a week after Indigo Books & Music announced that CEO Peter Ruis was stepping down from his role at the retailer, the company announced on September 18 that founder and longtime CEO Heather ... Read More »
September 18, 2023
Author and literary festival director Jael Richardson has been named the winner of the Professional Association of Canadian Literary Agents's (PACLA) inaugural Publishing Professional of the Year Award for her work developing the FOLD literary ... Read More »
September 14, 2023
The ReLit Awards are going on hiatus. Katherine Alexandra Harvey, the executive director of the ReLit Literary Group, announced on September 12 that although the 2023 ReLit Awards will go ahead as planned, the prize ... Read More »
September 14, 2023
Dundurn Press president and publisher Kwame Scott Fraser has acquired world rights to Paul Harrietha and Ras Barrington Francis’s Tiga’s Tale: The Remarkable Life of Champion Boxer Barrington Francis. The nonfiction book is described as ... Read More »
September 14, 2023
Eva Oakes has been hired as editorial & agent assistant to Samantha Haywood, president & literary agent at the Transatlantic Agency. Oakes began her work for Haywood at the Transatlantic Agency in 2022 as a ... Read More »
September 14, 2023
HarperCollins Canada senior vice president of sales & marketing Leo MacDonald will be retiring this fall. MacDonald "has overseen an unprecedented evolution and growth trend" for the publisher, and his "hands-on approach and commitment has ... Read More »
September 13, 2023
Fitzhenry & Whiteside president and CEO Sharon Fitzhenry has died. She was 73. Fitzhenry died on August 26, 2023 according to COO Holly Doll. Fitzhenry was president, CEO, and majority shareholder at Fitz & Witz, ... Read More »
September 13, 2023
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