Kim Echlin has been named the winner of the 2021 Toronto Book Award. Echlin won the $10,000 prize for Speak, Silence (Hamish Hamilton/PHRC) at a virtual event hosted by CBC Radio host Ismaila Alfa on ... Read More »
October 5, 2021
Five books and their authors have been selected from a 12-title longlist as finalists for the 2021 Scotiabank Giller Prize. The shortlisted titles were revealed by jury members Zalika Reid-Benta and Megan Gail Coles at ... Read More »
October 5, 2021
The winners of the 2021 Victoria Book Prizes have been announced. Leslie Gentile won the $5,000 City of Victoria Children's Book Prize for her book Elvis, Me, and the Lemonade Stand Summer (Cormorant Books, Dancing ... Read More »
October 4, 2021
Dundurn Press’s president and publisher Scott Fraser has acquired world English rights to Patricia Westerhof’s The Canadian Guide to Creative Writing and Publishing. The title is described as a handbook for Canadian writers at all ... Read More »
September 30, 2021
It’s only a week into fall, but booksellers and publishers alike are already cautioning that if shoppers have particular titles they are hoping to give as gifts this winter, they should think about buying them ... Read More »
September 29, 2021
Five finalists have been chosen for the Atwood Gibson Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize. The winner of the prize, which was renamed earlier this year in honour of Writers’ Trust co-founders Margaret Atwood and Graeme Gibson, ... Read More »
September 29, 2021
Ballantine’s Andra Miller and HarperCollins Canada’s Iris Tupholme have acquired North American rights to Zoe Whittall’s Wild Failure. The story collection is described as steeped in explorations of femme desire, agency, violence, dislocation, and anxiety, ... Read More »
September 27, 2021
HarperCollins’s Marta Schooler has acquired world English rights to Geddy Lee’s untitled memoir. The book from the Rush bassist is described as telling the full story of his life on and off the stage, from ... Read More »
September 23, 2021
Ronald J. Deibert has been named the winner of the Writers’ Trust Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing. Deibert was awarded the $25,000 prize for Reset: Reclaiming the Internet for Civil Society (House of Anansi ... Read More »
September 22, 2021
Chandler Crawford, an international publishing agent with 39 years of experience, is joining the Transatlantic Agency. Crawford most recently ran her own agency, Chandler Crawford Agency, where she was president. At Transatlantic she will continue ... Read More »
September 22, 2021
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