by Cassandra Drudi

Writers’ Trust announces finalists for 2023 Bronwen Wallace Award

Three poets and three short fiction writers have been named finalists for the 2023 RBC Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers. The awards, given annually since 1994, aim to identify the work of promising new ... Read More »

April 26, 2023

Dionne Brand wins LA Times Book Award

By Cassandra Drudi

Poet Dionne Brand has been awarded a Los Angeles Times Book Award. The annual awards recognize the literary excellence of writers at all stages of their careers and were awarded on April 21. Brand won ... Read More »

April 24, 2023

Rights Deal: Jordan Abel

By Cassandra Drudi

Yale University Press’s Jennifer Banks has acquired world English rights, excluding Canada, to Jordan Abel’s Empty Spaces. Canadian English and French rights were previously sold to McClelland & Stewart. The deal was arranged by Cody ... Read More »

April 24, 2023

Kids Can Press announces management changes

By Cassandra Drudi

Major changes are underway at Kids Can Press, where a trio of senior leaders are taking on expanded leadership roles and president and publisher Lisa Lyons Johnston will be leaving the company. Lara Caplan, associate ... Read More »

April 24, 2023

Personnel change: Baraka Books

By Cassandra Drudi

Blossom Thom has been appointed fiction editor at Baraka Books. ... Read More »

April 24, 2023

Crime Writers of Canada announces awards shortlists

By Cassandra Drudi

The Crime Writers of Canada has announced the shortlists for their annual Awards of Excellence. The winners will be announced on May 25. Best Crime Novel Linwood Barclay, Take Your Breath Away (William Morrow/HarperCollins) Anthony Bidulka, Going ... Read More »

April 20, 2023

League of Canadian Poets announces 2023 Book Awards shortlists

By Cassandra Drudi

The League of Canadian Poets has announced the shortlists for their annual book awards. The three awards each carry a $2,000 prize. The winners of this year's awards will be announced on May 4. The ... Read More »

April 20, 2023

Rights Deals: Marianne K. Miller, Scott Stirrett + nine more

By Cassandra Drudi

Dundurn Press manager of publishing operations Meghan Macdonald has acquired world rights to Marianne K. Miller’s debut novel, The Prisoners’ Tale. The historical novel is described as telling the story of notorious bank robber, Norman ... Read More »

April 20, 2023

Personnel changes: Penguin Random House Canada

By Cassandra Drudi

A number of changes have been announced for the Penguin Random House Canada team. Jaclyn Mistry has joined Penguin Random House Canada as imprint sales coordinator. Chloe Gandy has joined as editorial assistant at Penguin Canada on a ... Read More »

April 20, 2023

Carol Shields Prize for Fiction shortlisted authors on their work and what being shortlisted means to them

By Cassandra Drudi

Just over a decade after Susan Swan, a co-founder of the Carol Shields Prize for Fiction (along with Don Oravec and Janice Zawerbny), participated in a discussion at the Vancouver Writers’ Fest about the progress ... Read More »

April 19, 2023

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