Viktoriya Gutsuzyan has been appointed marketing ... Read More »
March 23, 2023
Dear Agony Editor, Every few months, I get a templated email from my publisher, reminding me that I can review a report of my book sales. I’ve never clicked through, and I’m not sure I ... Read More »
March 22, 2023
The Writers' Trust of Canada is adding a new award – its first for international writers – to its annual award program. The $75,000 Weston International Award, which will honour an international author for their ... Read More »
March 22, 2023
Random House Canada executive editor Anne Collins has acquired Canadian English rights to Loghan Paylor’s The Cure for Drowning. The historical novel is described as a boundary-pushing love story centering queer and non-binary characters that follows ... Read More »
March 16, 2023
Canadian writer Brad Smith is one of five authors shortlisted for the 2022 Dashiell Hammett Prize for Literary Excellence in Crime Writing. His novel, Copperhead Road, is published by Winnipeg-based press At Bay Press. The ... Read More »
March 16, 2023
The Griffin Poetry Prize has announced a 10-book longlist for this year's $130,000 prize. This year, for the first time since the prize was established in 2000, the prize's Canadian and international categories have merged. ... Read More »
March 15, 2023
Ricky Utomo has joined the Penguin Random House Canada IT team as a service desk analyst. Kathryn Rennie has been promoted to senior imprint sales manager, Young Readers, reporting to Kelly Glover. Cindy Pang will be joining the young readers ... Read More »
March 15, 2023
The A-frame house poet Al Purdy built in Ontario's Prince Edward County is in need of saving – again. After Purdy died in 2000, his wife Eurithe Purdy hoped to sell the property with the ... Read More »
March 9, 2023
Atria Books’s Amar Deol has acquired world English rights to Jessica Waite’s The Widow’s Guide to Dead Bastards. The memoir is described as Waite's story of how the sudden death of her husband — and ... Read More »
March 9, 2023
As a child, Rebecca Rose remembers cracking open cases of books published by Breakwater Books, flipping to the correct page and placing errata stickers over typos. Independent publishing was a family operation, and independent publishing ... Read More »
March 8, 2023
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