by Cassandra Drudi

Rights Deals: Tara MacLean, A.B. Tate + six more

HarperCollins Canada's Jennifer Lambert has acquired singer Tara MacLean's Song of the Sparrow. The memoir is described as a daring, heartbreaking, and provocative book that reveals MacLean’s remarkable strength, the healing power of music, and how ... Read More »

June 23, 2022

Jesse Wente, Pik-Shuen Fung, Damhnait Monoghan named winners of 2022 Kobo Emerging Writer prizes

By Cassandra Drudi

The winners of this year's $10,000 Kobo Emerging Writer prizes have been announced. Former CBC broadcaster Jesse Wente was named the nonfiction winner for his memoir Unreconciled: Family, Truth, and Indigenous Resistance (Allen Lane/PRHC). “Deftly ... Read More »

June 23, 2022

Writers’ Trust relaunching Berton House Writers’ Residency for fall 2022

By Cassandra Drudi

The Writers' Trust of Canada is relaunching the Berton House residency, with the next occupant to take up residence in Pierre Berton's childhood home this fall. The program invites selected writers to spend two months ... Read More »

June 22, 2022

Coach House imprint zaagigin open for submissions

By Cassandra Drudi

Coach House Books has announced that its new nonfiction imprint for Indigenous authors, zaagigin, is now accepting submissions. zaagigin is an Anishinaabemowin word that describes a sprout coming out of the earth. The advisory board, ... Read More »

June 22, 2022

Personnel changes: Penguin Random House Canada

By Cassandra Drudi

Hala Kamaliddin has joined the Penguin Random House Canada independent sales team in the role of district sales manager, Western Canada. On the performance marketing team, Anaïs Loewen-Young has been promoted to the role of marketing associate, from her previous position ... Read More »

June 22, 2022

Ben McNally Books finds permanent home

By Cassandra Drudi

Toronto indie bookseller Ben McNally Books has found a new permanent home, the store announced this week on Twitter. The bookstore has had a couple of short-term homes since learning in 2019 that they would ... Read More »

June 22, 2022

Brian Thomas Isaac, Selina Boan among 2022 Indigenous Voices Awards winners

By Cassandra Drudi

The winners of the fifth annual Indigenous Voices Awards were announced on June 21, National Indigenous Peoples Day. The awards were launched in 2017 t0 support and nurture the work of Indigenous writers. The amount ... Read More »

June 21, 2022

Ann Shin, Bardia Sinaee among 2022 Trillium Book Award winners

By Cassandra Drudi

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

Rights Deals: Katie Wicks, Mikaela Lucido + one more

By Cassandra Drudi

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

Rights Deals: Eric Walters, Max Wyman + two more

By Cassandra Drudi

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

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