by Cassandra Drudi

Rights Deals: Dr. Cathryn Tobin, Tamara Jong + three more

Dorling Kindersley UK’s Becky Alexander has commissioned (and acquired world rights to) Dr. Cathryn Tobin’s tentatively titled Toddlers Made Easy. The nonfiction book is described as being based on the pediatrician, midwife, author and mother’s ... Read More »

May 23, 2023

Kate Beaton, Charlotte Schallié, Chip Zdarsky among Canadians shortlisted for Eisner Awards

By Cassandra Drudi

Kate Beaton, Charlotte Schallié, and Chip Zdarsky are among the six Canadians shortlisted for the 2023 Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards. The winners will be announced at San Diego Comic-Con on July 21. Nominees in ... Read More »

May 23, 2023

Ryan Manucha wins 2022 Donner Prize

By Cassandra Drudi

Ryan Manucha was awarded the 2022 Donner Prize at a gala in Toronto on May 18. Manucha won the $60,000 prize for his book Booze, Cigarettes and Constitutional Dust-Ups: Canada’s Quest for Interprovincial Free Trade (McGill-Queen’s ... Read More »

May 19, 2023

Rights Deals: Sophie Grégoire Trudeau, Naomi Klein + 10 more

By Cassandra Drudi

Random House Canada has acquired Sophie Grégoire Trudeau’s Closer Together: Knowing Ourselves, Loving Each Other. The nonfiction book is described as exploring the importance of acceptance, compassion, empowerment, and self-knowledge for better emotional literacy and ... Read More »

May 18, 2023

Personnel change: Nimbus Publishing

By Cassandra Drudi

After covering a year-long parental leave position, Claire Bennet has joined Nimbus Publishing permanently as in-house children’s editor, replacing long-time employee Emily MacKinnon. A graduate of Dalhousie University and the Toronto Metropolitan University publishing program, Bennet also ... Read More »

May 18, 2023

Personnel change: Transatlantic Agency

By Cassandra Drudi

Chelene Knight is moving into a freelance role as internal programs designer at Transatlantic Agency, and stepping away from her work as a literary agent to focus on her writing career and her literary coaching ... Read More »

May 18, 2023

IVAs anthology celebrates Indigenous writers, growth of community

By Cassandra Drudi

Six years after the Indigenous Voices Awards (IVAs) were first launched, the conversation about Indigenous literature in Canada has grown exponentially – instead of focusing on a handful of big names, it is a much ... Read More »

May 17, 2023

Dan K. Woo on editing an anthology of new Chinese Canadian writing

By Cassandra Drudi

Dan K. Woo likes to be in control of the titles of his works – usually. But during the publishing process of a fiction anthology he edited by Chinese-Canadian writers, Woo brainstormed ideas for the ... Read More »

May 17, 2023

Emily Riddle wins inaugural $10K Griffin Canadian First Book Prize

By Cassandra Drudi

Cree poet Emily Riddle has been awarded the Griffin Poetry Prize Canadian First Book Prize for her debut collection of poetry, The Big Melt (Nightwood Editions). In their citation, the judges (poets Nikola Madzirov, Gregory ... Read More »

May 17, 2023

Rights Deals: Moira Dann, Rick Mercer + 10 more

By Cassandra Drudi

Sutherland House’s Ken Whyte has acquired world rights to an as-yet untitled nonfiction book by Moira Dann. The book is described as part memoir and part science survey that tells the story of the author's ... Read More »

May 17, 2023

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