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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Canadian poets Susan Musgrave and Iman Mersal are among the poets shortlisted for the $130,000 Griffin Poetry Prize. Musgrave was shortlisted for her latest collection, Exculpatory Lilies, and Mersal for The Threshold, a collection originally ... Read More »
April 19, 2023
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