by Cassandra Drudi

2021 Vine Awards shortlist announced

The Koffler Centre of the Arts has announced the finalists for the 2021 Vine Awards for Canadian Jewish Literature. The annual awards honour Canadian writers who are Jewish or who deal with Jewish subjects across ... Read More »

October 27, 2021

Rights Deals: Foreign rights for Joshua Whitehead and Howard Green

By Cassandra Drudi

Mémoire d'encrier has acquired world French rights to Joshua Whitehead’s forthcoming Making Love with the Land. The deal was arranged by Carolyn Buszynski at Cooke International, on behalf of Stephanie Sinclair at CookeMcDermid Agency. Jie ... Read More »

October 25, 2021

The Puritan launches Austin Clarke Prize

By Cassandra Drudi

The Puritan literary magazine has launched the Austin Clarke Prize in Literary Excellence. The annual prize for fiction and poetry, formerly known as the Thomas Morton Prize, was renamed this month to honour the memory ... Read More »

October 20, 2021

The cover of Suzanne Simard's Finding the Mother Tree with a photo of the author

Bestsellers: Suzanne Simard’s nonfiction debut takes  people back to their roots

By Cassandra Drudi

In Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest (Allen Lane), Suzanne Simard shares how she discovered the forest’s underground fungal communication networks, alongside the story of her life in the woods. The ... Read More »

October 20, 2021

‘We’re here, we made it’: Canada FBM2021 takes centre stage

By Cassandra Drudi

FRANKFURT — In keeping with the motto “Re:connect — Welcome back to Frankfurt,” Canada takes the spotlight this week as guest of honour at the Frankfurt Book Fair, creating the first hybrid pavilion and bringing ... Read More »

October 20, 2021

Rights Deals: Sarah Cox, Salma Hussain + one more

By Cassandra Drudi

Goose Lane Editions's Susanne Alexander and Matthew Halliday have acquired world rights to Sarah Cox's Nature's Guardians: Inside the Fight to Save Endangered Species. The nonfiction book is described as a journey into vanishing natural ... Read More »

October 18, 2021

Samir Shaheen-Hussain, Aimee Wall, and Sheila Fischman among 2021 QWF Literary Awards finalists

By Cassandra Drudi

The Quebec Writers Federation has announced the 24 books shortlisted for the 2021 QWF Literary Awards. The awards honour English-language writers and translators in Quebec across six categories. The winner of each award will receive ... Read More »

October 18, 2021

Personnel changes: Penguin Random House Canada

By Cassandra Drudi

Peter Phillips has been promoted to editor at Tundra Books and will continue to work on children’s and YA titles with a list of authors including Xiran Jay Zhao, Paul Gilligan, and Thomas King. Margot ... Read More »

October 18, 2021

Rights Deals: Timothy Christian, Dean Jobb and Marie Hoy-Kenny

By Cassandra Drudi

Dundurn Press’s Russell Smith and Pegasus Books’s Claiborne Hancock have acquired Canadian and world English rights, respectively, to Timothy Christian’s Hemingway’s Widow. The biography portrays the life of Mary Walsh Hemingway from before she met the ... Read More »

October 14, 2021

Ivan Coyote, David A. Robertson, and Rachel Cusk among finalists for Governor General’s Literary Awards

By Cassandra Drudi

The finalists for the 2021 Governor General's Literary Awards were announced on Oct. 14. Each of the 70 shortlisted authors receives $1,000, with the winners in each category to receive $25,000. The publishers of the ... Read More »

October 14, 2021

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