This week’s news of grade eight students in a Toronto public school raising their arms in a Hitler salute in their classroom – in front of their teacher, the daughter of Holocaust survivors – brought ... Read More »
February 24, 2022
Chalista Andadari is joining the publicity team at Penguin Random House Canada in the role of publicist. Kirti Joyejob joins the marketing team in the role of marketing analyst. Kelly Joseph is stepping into the ... Read More »
February 23, 2022
The Writers’ Trust of Canada has announced the cohort for the 2022 Rising Stars program. The program invites five established Canadian writers to select one writer in the early stages of their career to mentor. ... Read More »
February 23, 2022
I can still recall the lilt in my Ajji’s voice when she recounted the tale of the monkey and the crocodile from the Panchatantra, just like women before her had done for centuries. This ancient ... Read More »
February 23, 2022
Toronto bookseller, event coordinator and community builder Anjula Gogia has been named the winner of this year’s Freedom to Read Award. The award is presented each year during Freedom to Read week by The Writers’ ... Read More »
February 22, 2022
The Newfoundland and Labrador Arts Council has announced the six books longlisted for this year's BMO Winterset Award. The $12,500 award celebrates literary work by a writer from Newfoundland and Labrador. The six longlisted books ... Read More »
February 22, 2022
Simon & Schuster Canada is launching a new imprint dedicated to publishing literary fiction and nonfiction from Canada and from around the world. Scribner Canada will publish its inaugural list this fall, and Simon & ... Read More »
February 22, 2022
McClelland & Stewart’s Joe Lee and Jared Bland have acquired North American English rights to Jon Tattrie’s Sword and Soul: How an American Exile Rewrote Fantasy. The nonfiction book is described as the incredible story ... Read More »
February 17, 2022
Jean Lenore Wilson was a reader, an editor, a friend, a partner, and beloved to many. Born in Foremost, Alberta, in 1945 to Marian Macdonald and John Laught Wilson, an RCMP constable, Jean attended school ... Read More »
February 16, 2022
With 10 previous picture books and an acclaimed adult novel under her belt, Jean E. Pendziwol knows a lot about imagination. She’s also keen to provide space for her young readers’ imaginations to run wild. ... Read More »
February 16, 2022
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