by Cassandra Drudi

Rights Deal: Sam Shelstad

TouchWood Editions imprint Brindle & Glass’s Tori Elliott has acquired world rights in all languages excluding Spanish to Sam Shelstad’s Citizens of Light. The novel is described as a comic literary noir about a telemarketer ... Read More »

August 26, 2021

Personnel change: Transatlantic Agency

By Cassandra Drudi

Associate agent Chelene Knight has been promoted to literary agent at Transatlantic Agency. Knight spearheaded the agency’s ... Read More »

August 26, 2021

Personnel change: Penguin Random House Canada

By Cassandra Drudi

Lahring Tribe, director of library & academic sales at Penguin Random House Canada, will retire from the company ... Read More »

August 25, 2021

2021 Best of Fall guide: Fiction, Short Fiction, and Poetry

By Cassandra Drudi

FICTION Canadian novel, short-fiction, and poetry highlights from publishing’s golden season Fight Night Miriam Toews Knopf Canada/PRHC, out now Swiv, nine, lives with her pregnant mother and her frail grandmother in the latest from reader-favourite ... Read More »

August 25, 2021

Esi Edugyan brings Black historical figures out of the shadows

By Cassandra Drudi

In this year’s CBC Massey Lectures, two-time Giller winner Esi Edugyan tells the stories of overlooked Black figures from history in essays that explore art, white allyship, samurais, and more. Edugyan examines these forgotten lives ... Read More »

August 25, 2021

Rights Deals: Michael Bungay Stanier, Jeff Booth + four more

By Cassandra Drudi

HVG Kiado has acquired Hungarian rights to Michael Bungay Stanier’s The Advice Trap. The deal was arranged by Evan Brown at Transatlantic Agency on behalf of Page Two Books in association with Orsi Mészáros at ... Read More »

August 19, 2021

Personnel changes: Penguin Canada

By Cassandra Drudi

At Penguin Canada, Lara Hinchberger has been promoted to executive editor, Laura Dosky has been promoted to editor, and Meredith Pal ... Read More »

August 17, 2021

Rights Deals: Paige Maylott, Ali Grovue and Mike Watson, and Eliza Reid

By Cassandra Drudi

ECW Press’s Jen Sookfong Lee has acquired world English rights to Paige Maylott’s Together in Electric Dreams. The memoir is described as part trans woman’s coming-out story and part queer romance. The deal was arranged ... Read More »

August 16, 2021

ECW Press launches Best New Speculative Novel Contest

By Cassandra Drudi

Calling all speculative fiction writers: ECW Press is on the hunt for Canada’s best new speculative fiction novel. The press is holding a manuscript contest for works in the science fiction, fantasy, and speculative fiction ... Read More »

August 16, 2021

Mitchell Poetry Prize 2021 longlist announced

By Cassandra Drudi

The longlist for the 2021 Ross and David Mitchell Prize for faith and poetry has been announced. The 14 longlisted poems by 13 poets were chosen from almost 300 submissions. A shortlist of five finalists ... Read More »

August 16, 2021

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