by Cassandra Drudi

Personnel changes: Penguin Random House Canada

On the Penguin Random House Canada marketing team, Paige Gunning has been promoted to manager, consumer engagement, and Colin Jaworski has been promoted to manager, marketing design. Megan MacKenzie joins in the newly created role of junior marketing designer, and Hailey LeBlanc, currently interning with the ... Read More »

June 13, 2022

2022 Atlantic Book Awards winners announced

By Cassandra Drudi

The winners of the Atlantic Book Awards were announced at a gala in Halifax on June 9 as part of the Atlantic Book Awards Festival. For the first time, the awards were also live-streamed so ... Read More »

June 9, 2022

Rights Deals: Randi Druzin, Kevin and Basil Sylvester + eight more

By Cassandra Drudi

Greystone Books has acquired world rights to Randi Druzin’s Square the Puck. The nonfiction book is described as a follow-up to the bestseller Between the Pipes. Publication is expected for fall 2023. The deal was ... Read More »

June 9, 2022

Black women writers celebrate Toni Morrison’s legacy in two-night Luminato event

By Cassandra Drudi

When Nobel Prize-winning American author Toni Morrison died in August 2019, Toronto-based journalist and critic Donna Bailey Nurse felt the loss keenly. Bailey Nurse expected to be sad – Morrison "had meant so much to ... Read More »

June 8, 2022

Personnel change: House of Anansi Press

By Cassandra Drudi

Kirsten Parucha has joined House of Anansi Press as rights ... Read More »

June 8, 2022

Rights Deal: Leslie Gentile

By Cassandra Drudi

DCB’s Barry Jowett has acquired world rights, including audio and film, to Leslie Gentile’s Shamus the Urban Rez Dog. The middle-grade novel is described as following Shamus, a dog from the rez who now lives ... Read More »

June 6, 2022

Patrick James Errington, Teya Hollier win 2022 Bronwen Wallace Award

By Cassandra Drudi

Patrick James Errington and Teya Hollier have been named the winners of the 2022 RBC Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers. Errington was named the winner in the $10,000 poetry category for “If Fire, Then ... Read More »

June 6, 2022

Rights Deals: Kai Cheng Thom, Fawn Parker + 12 more

By Cassandra Drudi

Penguin Canada’s David Ross has acquired, in a pre-empt, English Canadian rights to Kai Cheng Thom’s Love Letters to Lost Souls. Dial Press’s Katy Nishimoto has acquired world rights excluding Canada. The book is described as a collection ... Read More »

June 6, 2022

Pik-Shuen Fung wins $60,000 Amazon Canada First Novel Award

By Cassandra Drudi

Pik-Shuen Fung has won this year's Amazon Canada First Novel Award for Ghost Forest (Strange Light). The winner of the $60,000 award was announced Wednesday night in Toronto. Ghost Forest’s unnamed protagonist revisits memories of ... Read More »

June 2, 2022

Arnolda Dufour Bowes wins Danuta Gleed award for debut short-fiction collection

By Cassandra Drudi

Métis writer Arnolda Dufour Bowes has won the $10,000 Danuta Gleed Literary Award. The annual award recognizes the best first collection of short fiction by a Canadian author in English. Bowes won this year’s award ... Read More »

June 1, 2022

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