by Cassandra Drudi

Brian Thomas Isaac, Anne Carson among finalists for 2022 Governor General’s Literary Awards

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 among 2022 High Plains Book Awards winners

By Cassandra Drudi

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

Personnel change: Penguin Random House Canada

By Cassandra Drudi

At Penguin Random House Canada, Nicole Alfaro joins the special markets and new business ... Read More »

October 11, 2022

Tammy Armstrong wins 2022 HarperCollins/UBC Prize

By Cassandra Drudi

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

Rights Deals: Christine Estima, Dan Needles + three more

By Cassandra Drudi

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

Three books honoured by 2022 First Nations Communities READ program

By Cassandra Drudi

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

Agony Editor: Navigate publishing friendships with tact

By Cassandra Drudi

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

Distribution change: Marble Press

By Cassandra Drudi

Baker & Taylor Publisher Services has signed a worldwide full-service sales and distribution agreement with new children’s publisher ... Read More »

October 3, 2022

Rights Deals: Sonya Singh, Stephen Kakfwi + three more

By Cassandra Drudi

Doubleday Canada’s editorial director of commercial fiction Bhavna Chauhan has acquired Canadian English rights to Sonya Singh’s The Fake Matchmaker and Indian Summer in an exclusive submission two-book deal. The novels are described as the ... Read More »

September 29, 2022

Saskatoon writer Candace Savage named 2022 Cheryl and Henry Kloppenburg Award winner

By Cassandra Drudi

Award-winning Saskatoon writer Candace Savage has been named the recipient of the 2022 Cheryl and Henry Kloppenburg Award for Literary Excellence. Awarded annually by the Saskatchewan Writers' Guild, the $10,000 prize honours a Saskatchewan writer ... Read More »

September 28, 2022

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