Independent Publishers Group is adding five publishers to its sales and distribution programs as of June 2026: Antarctic ... Read More »
May 11, 2026
The Griffin Poetry Prize will be hosting a town hall meeting later this month after asking for input on the prize's format last month from the Canadian poetry community. On April 2, just over three years ... Read More »
May 11, 2026
Freehand Books’s Kelsey Attard has acquired North American English rights to Angela Caravan’s God Is a Thing with Feathers. The novel is described as the story of a woman who spends a weekend performing an ... Read More »
May 7, 2026
Five writers have been named finalists for the 2025 Danuta Gleed Literary Award. The prize, administered by the Writers’ Union of Canada, is awarded annually to three first collections of short fiction written in English. ... Read More »
May 7, 2026
Eight writers have been named recipients of the 2025 Indigenous Voices Awards for their unpublished work and eight more have been named finalists of the IVAs. The prizes, now in their ninth year, honour the ... Read More »
May 7, 2026
Donna Nopper, senior director of publicity and office manager at Hachette Book Group Canada, will be retiring this summer after more than 30 years of working in publishing. Nopper's last day in the role will ... Read More »
May 7, 2026
With fuel prices on the rise due to the Iran war, publisher and distributor Firefly Books is updating its free shipping policy. Beginning June 1, the minimum net order for free shipping will rise to ... Read More »
May 6, 2026
The finalists have been announced for the Doug Wright Awards, honouring the best in Canadian comics. Winners will be announced at a ceremony in Toronto on June 6. The winners in each of the four ... Read More »
May 6, 2026
Chilean poet Raúl Zurita has been named the recipient of the 2026 Lifetime Achievement Award, the Griffin Poetry Prize announced on May 6. The prize, established in 2006, is awarded to international poets. Zurita published ... Read More »
May 6, 2026
Five writers have been named to the Writers’ Trust of Canada 2026 Rising Stars cohort. Under the program, which was launched in 2019, five established authors each select a writer in the early stages of their ... Read More »
May 6, 2026
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