The winners of the Trillium Book Awards were announced at an in-person event in Toronto on June 21. The awards, now in their 35th year, recognize excellence in Ontario’s writers in both French and English. ... Read More »
June 21, 2022
W by Wattpad Books’s Deanna McFadden has acquired world rights to Katie Wicks’s Hazel Sings Along and another novel in a two-book pre-empt. The novel is described as following an aspiring singer who enters a ... Read More »
June 20, 2022
DCB associate publisher Barry Jowett has acquired world rights to Eric Walters’s Good Boy Timmy, to be illustrated by Eugenie Fernandes. The picture book is described as telling the story of a a dog’s dreams ... Read More »
June 16, 2022
Access Copyright Foundation has announced that for the 2022 Marian Hebb Research Grants, 22 creators, publishers, and organizations will receive a total of $100,000 in funding to pursue their projects. The Marian Hebb Research Grant ... Read More »
June 16, 2022
Canadian-American novelist Ruth Ozeki has won the 2022 Women's Prize for Fiction. The £30,000 prize is awarded annually to the best novel written by a woman in English. Ozeki won this year's prize for her ... Read More »
June 16, 2022
Canadian poet Tolu Oloruntoba and American poet Douglas Kearney are the winners of the 2022 Griffin Poetry Prize. Oloruntoba won the $65,000 Canadian prize for The Junta of Happenstance (Anstruther Books/Palimpsest Press). In their citation, ... Read More »
June 15, 2022
To bring together and showcase Indigenous slam poetry from across Turtle Island and Abya Yala, and to continue to foster cross-continental communication and collaboration, the Toronto International Festival of Authors (TIFA) and the Festival of ... Read More »
June 15, 2022
Simon & Schuster Canada senior editor Sarah St. Pierre has acquired platinum award-winning country musician George Canyon’s My Country. The memoir is described as the story of Canyon's musical journey from small-town Nova Scotia to ... Read More »
June 15, 2022
Dear Agony Editor, I’m a mid-career author currently between books. For the first time in my career, I have no ideas. Zilch. Usually, even when I’m working on a book, I have two or three ... Read More »
June 15, 2022
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