by Cassandra Drudi

Access Copyright Foundation announces recipients of 2022 Marian Hebb Research Grants

Access Copyright Foundation has announced that for the 2022 Marian Hebb Research Grants, 22 creators, publishers, and organizations will receive a total of $100,000 in funding to pursue their projects. The Marian Hebb Research Grant ... Read More »

June 16, 2022

Ruth Ozeki wins 2022 Women’s Prize for Fiction

By Cassandra Drudi

Canadian-American novelist Ruth Ozeki has won the 2022 Women's Prize for Fiction. The £30,000 prize is awarded annually to the best novel written by a woman in English. Ozeki won this year's prize for her ... Read More »

June 16, 2022

Tolu Oloruntoba, Douglas Kearney named 2022 Griffin Poetry Prize winners

By Cassandra Drudi

Canadian poet Tolu Oloruntoba and American poet Douglas Kearney are the winners of the 2022 Griffin Poetry Prize. Oloruntoba won the $65,000 Canadian prize for The Junta of Happenstance (Anstruther Books/Palimpsest Press). In their citation, ... Read More »

June 15, 2022

Slam Coalkan poetry anthology celebrates work of Indigenous slam poets

By Cassandra Drudi

To bring together and showcase Indigenous slam poetry from across Turtle Island and Abya Yala, and to continue to foster cross-continental communication and collaboration, the Toronto International Festival of Authors (TIFA) and the Festival of ... Read More »

June 15, 2022

Rights Deals: George Canyon, Michelle Hébert + six more

By Cassandra Drudi

Simon & Schuster Canada senior editor Sarah St. Pierre has acquired platinum award-winning country musician George Canyon’s My Country. The memoir is described as the story of Canyon's musical journey from small-town Nova Scotia to ... Read More »

June 15, 2022

Britt Wray

By Cassandra Drudi

In Generation Dread, Britt Wray encourages those experiencing eco-anxiety to turn their feelings into action

June 15, 2022

Agony Editor: Ideas come to those who wait — and read

By Cassandra Drudi

Dear Agony Editor, I’m a mid-career author currently between books. For the first time in my career, I have no ideas. Zilch. Usually, even when I’m working on a book, I have two or three ... Read More »

June 15, 2022

Personnel changes: Penguin Random House Canada

By Cassandra Drudi

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

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