Veteran CBC Radio host Shelagh Rogers is saying goodbye to The Next Chapter. Rogers announced on May 13 that this season will be her last, with her final episode as host of the weekly show ... Read More »
May 15, 2023
House of Anansi Press’s Shivaun Hearne has acquired Christina Myers’s Halfway Home: Thoughts from Midlife. The nonfiction book is described as exploring the uncertainty and joys of being a woman in her midlife during a ... Read More »
May 11, 2023
Chris Turner has won the $25,000 Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing. The annual award, administered by the Writers' Trust of Canada, was presented on May 10 in Ottawa at the Politics and the Pen ... Read More »
May 11, 2023
The day-to-day operations of Véhicule Press look a little different now than they would have in the press’s early days in 1973. For starters, the Montreal-based independent publisher is no longer printing their own books, ... Read More »
May 10, 2023
Winnipeg poet and educator Di Brandt has been awarded the 2023 Manitoba Arts Award of Distinction. The $30,000 award, granted by the Manitoba Arts Council, recognizes artistic excellence and contribution to the development of the ... Read More »
May 9, 2023
The finalists have been announced for this year's Indigenous Voices Awards. The annual awards, now in their sixth year, honour the sovereignty of Indigenous creative voices and support the work of Indigenous writers. Recipients of ... Read More »
May 9, 2023
Ontario Creates has announced the finalists for the 2023 Trillium Book Awards/Prix Trillium. The annual awards recognize excellence in Ontario's writers who work in both French and English. Winning authors receive $20,000, and their publishers ... Read More »
May 9, 2023
Dundurn Press Associate Publisher Kathryn Lane has acquired Barbara Fradkin’s The Gates of Hell. The mystery novel is described as the 12th book in the Inspector Green series, in which a cryptic note is found on ... Read More »
May 8, 2023
American writer Fatimah Asghar has been named the winner of the inaugural Carol Shields Prize for Fiction. Asghar was one of five authors shortlisted for the award, which celebrates the work of women and nonbinary ... Read More »
May 4, 2023
McClelland and Stewart publisher Stephanie Sinclair has acquired world audio rights to Métis Indigenous literature specialist Warren Cariou’s Tellings: An Audio Original Series of Indigenous Oral Stories, and world print rights to Cariou’s Where the ... Read More »
May 4, 2023
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