by Cassandra Drudi

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

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

Rights Deals: Philippa Dowding and Samra Zafar

By Cassandra Drudi

DCB’s Barry Jowett has acquired world print rights, world audio rights, and world TV rights to Philippa Dowding’s Oculum Echo. The middle-grade novel is described as a new story set in the world of the ... Read More »

June 21, 2021

Personnel changes: Canadian Manda Group

By Cassandra Drudi

Milana Madzarac has joined the sales team in the role of account manager, online retail, at the Canadian Manda Group. Madzarac previously worked for several years as a sales associate for Indigo Books & Music. ... Read More »

June 21, 2021

Personnel change: Kids Can Press

By Cassandra Drudi

Allison King joins Kids Can Press on a one-year contract as U.S. and international accounts manager, reporting to sales and marketing director Sarah Labrie. Prior to her most recent position as account executive at a ... Read More »

June 21, 2021

Rights Deals: Anne Renaud, Lorna Schultz Nicholson + eight more

By Cassandra Drudi

Reycraft Books’s Wiley Blevins has acquired world English rights to Anne Renaud’s Ferdinand Cheval: The Postman Who Delivered a Palace. The picture book is described as a biography of Cheval, the forerunner of the Naïve ... Read More »

June 17, 2021

Souvankham Thammavongsa wins $20,000 Trillium Book Award

By Cassandra Drudi

Souvankham Thammavongsa has won the $20,000 Trillium Book Award for her short-fiction collection How to Pronounce Knife (McClelland & Stewart). Poet Jody Chan was awarded the Trillium Book Award for Poetry for her collection, Sick ... Read More »

June 16, 2021

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