Esi Edugyan and Wendy Proverbs have been named the winners of the 20th annual Victoria Book Prizes. The winners were announced at an October 12 gala. Edugyan was named the winner of the City of ... Read More »
October 13, 2022
Bestselling British-Canadian crime novelist Peter Robinson has died. He was 72. The award-winning Robinson was a prolific writer, profiled here in Q&Q, who published more than 30 books over the course of a 35-year career, ... Read More »
October 12, 2022
The Canada Council for the Arts announced 70 finalists for the 2022 Governor General's Literary Awards. Each finalist receives $1,000, with the winners in each of the 14 categories to receive $25,000. Publishers of the ... Read More »
October 12, 2022
Two Canadian authors are among the winners of this year’s High Plains Book Awards. The winner of the Indigenous writer category, Arnolda Dufour Bowes, also won the 2021 Danuta Gleed Literary Award for her short ... Read More »
October 11, 2022
At Penguin Random House Canada, Nicole Alfaro joins the special markets and new business ... Read More »
October 11, 2022
Nova Scotia writer Tammy Armstrong has been named the winner of the 2022 HarperCollins/UBC Prize for Best New Fiction for her novel Ursula. HarperCollins Canada has acquired world rights to the book, a historical novel ... Read More »
October 6, 2022
House of Anansi Press’s Shirarose Wilensky has acquired world rights to Christine Estima’s The Arabs of Montreal. The short-fiction book is described as a collection of linked stories exploring the deep roots of the author’s ... Read More »
October 6, 2022
This year, three books by Indigenous authors are being honoured by the annual First Nations Communities READ program. The program, run by the Ontario First Nations public library community under the Ontario Library Service (OLS), and sponsored ... Read More »
October 5, 2022
Dear Agony Editor, By all accounts, I’m a successful novelist. A good writer friend of mine isn’t as successful. I didn’t think it was an issue, but the other day, I was complaining about my ... Read More »
October 5, 2022
Baker & Taylor Publisher Services has signed a worldwide full-service sales and distribution agreement with new children’s publisher ... Read More »
October 3, 2022
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