by Cassandra Drudi

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

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

Personnel change: Transatlantic Agency

By Cassandra Drudi

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

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