by Cassandra Drudi

Poetry month at Quill & Quire

This poetry month, Q&Q asked artist Karen Taylor to work with an excerpt from Gillian Sze’s new collection Quiet Night Think, published by ECW Press, to develop a piece of thematic art. Sze’s book is multi-genre, containing both ... Read More »

April 1, 2022

Rights Deals: German rights for Hannah Mary McKinnon and Michael Crummey

By Cassandra Drudi

Piper’s Katrin Andres has acquired, in a pre-empt, German rights to Hannah Mary McKinnon’s Never Coming Home. The deal was arranged by Hannah Nuspliger-Fosh at Liepman Agency on behalf of Carolyn Forde at Transatlantic Agency. ... Read More »

March 31, 2022

Michelle Good’s Five Little Indians wins 2022 Canada Reads

By Cassandra Drudi

Michelle Good's debut novel Five Little Indians has been named the winner of this year's Canada Reads. Five Little Indians (HarperCollins Canada) was one of 15 titles shortlisted for this year's annual battle of the books. ... Read More »

March 31, 2022

Invisible Publishing names Norm Nehmetallah as new publisher

By Cassandra Drudi

Norm Nehmetallah will become the new publisher of Invisible Publishing next month. Nehmetallah takes over from Leigh Nash, who becomes the new publisher at House of Anansi Press in April. Nehmetallah, who is currently a ... Read More »

March 31, 2022

Rahaf Mohammed on her memoir of escape from abuse

By Cassandra Drudi

In 2019, Rahaf Mohammed snuck out of a Kuwaiti hotel room in the middle of the night and headed to the airport to catch a plane to Bangkok. She was 18 and running away from ... Read More »

March 30, 2022

Newfoundland small press branches out into nonfiction

By Cassandra Drudi

Newfoundland and Labrador small press Engen Books launched 15 years ago publishing mostly horror books but is now expanding its list with nonfiction titles – a more generalist direction they’d always hoped to be able ... Read More »

March 30, 2022

Personnel change: Transatlantic Agency

By Cassandra Drudi

Rob Firing has been promoted to partner at Transatlantic Agency. Alongside his list of author clients, Firing is director of Transatlantic Speakers, responsible for developing the Transatlantic Speakers Division into a growing force of primarily ... Read More »

March 30, 2022

Personnel changes: Penguin Random House Canada

By Cassandra Drudi

At Penguin Random House Canada, Carla Kean has been promoted to the newly created role of head of production, from her previous role as director of production. She will continue to report to vice-president of publishing ... Read More »

March 28, 2022