by Cassandra Drudi

Sidura Ludwig, Sharon Kirsch among 2021 Vine Awards winners

The winners of the 2021 Vine Awards for Canadian Jewish Literature have been announced. Each winner receives $10,000. The winners were announced in a virtual ceremony on November 23. The annual awards honour Canadian writers ... Read More »

November 24, 2021

Dan Breznitz wins inaugural Balsillie Prize for Public Policy

By Cassandra Drudi

Dan Breznitz has been named the winner of the $60,000 Writers' Trust Balsillie Prize for Public Policy. He took home the award for his book Innovation in Real Places: Strategies for Prosperity in an Unforgiving ... Read More »

November 23, 2021

Rights Deals: Christine Lai and Natasha Deen

By Cassandra Drudi

Doubleday Canada’s Kiara Kent has acquired Canadian English rights to Christine Lai’s Landscapes. The novel is described as a prismatic blend of narrative, diary, and essay that explores memory, possession, and the capacity of art ... Read More »

November 22, 2021

Rights Deals: Melodie Campbell, John Bemrose + five more

By Cassandra Drudi

Cormorant Books’s publisher Marc Côté has acquired North American English rights to Melodie Campbell’s The Merry Widow Murders. The mystery is described as the story of an unconventional heiress with a mysterious past traveling by ... Read More »

November 18, 2021

Wattpad and Webtoon announce new graphic novel imprint

By Cassandra Drudi

Wattpad is expanding further into print with a new graphic novel imprint. Wattpad Webtoon Unscrolled will bring stories from online comics platform Webtoon to bookshelves. The imprint's debut list of six graphic novels is expected ... Read More »

November 18, 2021

Personnel changes: Association of Book Publishers of B.C.

By Cassandra Drudi

Kate Balfour has been promoted to the position of program manager at the Association of Book Publishers of B.C. ... Read More »

November 17, 2021

Norma Dunning, David A. Robertson and Julie Flett among 2021 GG winners

By Cassandra Drudi

The Canada Council for the Arts announced the winners of the 2021 Governor General's Literary Awards on Wednesday, November 17. Each winner receives $25,000, with an additional $3,000 awarded to publishers to assist in marketing ... Read More »

November 17, 2021

Rights Deals: Amy Helen Bell, Kevin Chong + one more

By Cassandra Drudi

Nimbus Publishing’s nonfiction editor Angela Mombourquette and managing editor Whitney Moran have acquired world rights to crime historian Amy Helen Bell’s Footprints in the Snow: My Father’s Defense of Two Moncton Cop-Killers. The nonfiction book ... Read More »

November 15, 2021

Rights Deals: Elyse Friedman, Diane Borsato + five more

By Cassandra Drudi

HarperCollins Canada's Patrick Crean and MIRA's Nicole Brebner have acquired world and U.S. rights, respectively, in a pre-emptive two-book deal to Elyse Friedman’s The Opportunist. The novel is described as the story of three adult ... Read More »

November 11, 2021