by Cassandra Drudi

Personnel change: Transatlantic Agency

Alexandra D’Amico has joined Transatlantic Agency as literary assistant. D’Amico previously worked as rights and contracts coordinator for Beverley Slopen after finishing Humber College's Creative Book Publishing program. D’Amico is assisting three Transatlantic senior agents: ... Read More »

June 1, 2022

Knopf Canada launches new imprint headed by Dionne Brand

By Cassandra Drudi

Award-winning poet, novelist, and essayist Dionne Brand will be heading up Alchemy by Knopf Canada, a new publishing program that aims to publish books that “remake what is literary.” Brand will work on Alchemy in ... Read More »

June 1, 2022

Longlist announced for 2022 Stephen Leacock medal

By Cassandra Drudi

The shortlist has been announced for the 2022 Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour. The $15,000 award recognizes literary humour in a Canadian book. The longlisted books are: Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be ... Read More »

June 1, 2022

Dan Breznitz wins $50,000 Donner Prize

By Cassandra Drudi

Dan Breznitz has won the 2021 Donner Prize for his book Innovation in Real Places: Strategies for Prosperity in an Unforgiving World. Breznitz was awarded the prize at a gala in Toronto on Tuesday night. ... Read More »

June 1, 2022

Martha Schabas on the tension between appearance and truth

By Cassandra Drudi

Author and former Globe & Mail dance critic Martha Schabas followed up her ballerina-centric debut Various Positions with My Face in the Light (Knopf Canada) earlier this year. A piercing look into the incandescent prisons ... Read More »

June 1, 2022

Rights Deal: Paul McKendrick

By Cassandra Drudi

Figure 1 Publishing president and publisher Chris Labonté has acquired world rights to Paul McKendrick’s Scrubbing the Sky: Inside the Race to Cool the Planet. The nonfiction book is described as an in-depth look at ... Read More »

May 30, 2022

Rights Deals: Eleanor Catton, Thomas Trofimuk + seven more

By Cassandra Drudi

McClelland & Stewart has acquired Canadian rights to Eleanor Catton’s Birnam Wood. The novel is described as a psychological thriller that is an unflinching examination of the human impulse to ensure our own survival. Publication ... Read More »

May 26, 2022

Gladstone Press closing operations

By Cassandra Drudi

Micro-press Gladstone Press, which began publishing in 2018, will be leaving University of Toronto Press Distribution and ceasing operations. Orders will not be accepted after June 1. Retailers can return unsold copies of Gladstone Press ... Read More »

May 26, 2022

University of Toronto Press VP Lynn Fisher retiring

By Cassandra Drudi

Lynn Fisher, vice president of book publishing at University of Toronto Press has announced her retirement, effective June 3, the press announced Wednesday. Fisher has worked in publishing for 35 years, and took the helm ... Read More »

May 25, 2022

Rights Deals: Stephanie Kain, Hannah McGregor + three more

By Cassandra Drudi

ECW Press's Pia Singhal has acquired world English rights to Stephanie Kain’s Lifeline. The memoir is described as an experimental look at a very specific relationship in one person’s life that comes to a tragic ... Read More »

May 24, 2022

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