by Cassandra Drudi

Joy and diversity: Q&Q’s summer reading guide

Last summer, Vivek Shraya, prolific author, musician, and creative force, told this magazine about the fatigue she felt while skimming the bestseller lists. Books by marginalized authors, often memoirs, outlined through vividly detailed examples the ... Read More »

June 30, 2021

Address change: Great Plains Publications

By Cassandra Drudi

As of June 22, 2021, Great Plains Publications is located in Winnipeg’s Lord Roberts neighbourhood. The new mailing address is: 320 Rosedale Ave. Winnipeg, MB R3L 1L8 Contact information is otherwise unchanged. Orders purchased through ... Read More »

June 30, 2021

Toronto Book Awards longlist announced

By Cassandra Drudi

The longlist for this year's Toronto Book Awards has been announced, and features 10 books across genres that the jury selected from the record 93 books submitted for consideration. The shortlist for the $10,000 prize ... Read More »

June 29, 2021

Personnel change: CookeMcDermid

By Cassandra Drudi

Paige Sisley has been promoted from associate agent to literary agent, books and film, at CookeMcDermid. Sisley is a market-focused agent who represents narrative and practical non-fiction, as well as upmarket and book-club fiction. Her ... Read More »

June 29, 2021

Rights Deals: Sharon Anne Cook and Margaret Carson + two more

By Cassandra Drudi

Dundurn Press's president and publisher Scott Fraser has acquired world rights to Sharon Anne Cook and Margaret Carson's The Castleton Massacre: A Family Memoir. The nonfiction book is described as a look at the short- ... Read More »

June 28, 2021

Best practices for diversity and inclusion in metadata to be discussed at BookNet Canada

By Cassandra Drudi

The Canadian Bibliographic Committee’s Equity, Diversity & Inclusion in Metadata Working Group is hosting an event that invites Canadian creators to join the conversation about how information about equity, diversity, and inclusion is shared in ... Read More »

June 24, 2021

Rights Deals: Charis St. Pierre, Anna Humphrey + three more

By Cassandra Drudi

Orca Book Publishers’s Liz Kemp has acquired world rights to Charis St. Pierre and Rachel Wada’s Welcome, Dark. The board book, illustrated by Wada, is described as a book that explains why nighttime is important. ... Read More »

June 24, 2021

Jillian Christmas wins $10,000 Dayne Ogilvie Prize

By Cassandra Drudi

Vancouver writer Jillian Christmas has won the $10,000 Writers’ Trust of Canada’s Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBTQ2S+ Emerging Writers. Christmas is the spoken-word curator of the Vancouver Writers Fest and author of the poetry collection ... Read More »

June 24, 2021

Personnel change: Transatlantic Agency

By Cassandra Drudi

Laura Cameron has been promoted from associate agent to literary agent at Transatlantic Agency. She will be taking on clients for literary representation with a specialization in book-to-tv/film representation. Her growing client list includes Ruchira ... Read More »

June 23, 2021

Nathan Adler, Bevann Fox, jaye simpson among Indigenous Voices Awards winners

By Cassandra Drudi

The nine winners of the Indigenous Voices Awards were announced Monday on National Indigenous Peoples Day in a virtual ceremony. The winners in nine categories received a total of $39,000. "This celebration is meant to ... Read More »

June 21, 2021

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