by Cassandra Drudi

Personnel changes: Penguin Random House Canada

Lavanya Narasimhan has been promoted to director, special markets and new business from manager, special markets & business development. She will report to vice president of sales Charidy Johnston and will lead a newly formed ... Read More »

April 14, 2021

Joseph Dandurand, Canisia Lubrin, and Yusuf Saadi shortlisted for Griffin Poetry Prize

By Cassandra Drudi

Poets Joseph Dandurand, Canisia Lubrin, and Yusuf Saadi have been shortlisted for the $65,000 Canadian Griffin Poetry Prize. The Griffin is the largest prize for English-language poetry in the world. The shortlists for the ... Read More »

April 14, 2021

Rights Deals: Paul Gallant, Thomas Wharton, and Dana L. Church

By Cassandra Drudi

The Acorn Press has acquired Toronto-based journalist Paul Gallant’s Still More Stubborn Stars. The novel is described as the story of a hapless romantic Come-From-Away from Ottawa, who tries to ingratiate himself into a rural ... Read More »

April 12, 2021

Personnel changes: McClelland & Stewart

By Cassandra Drudi

Anita Chong has been promoted from senior editor to the newly created role of executive editor. Joe Lee has ... Read More »

April 12, 2021

Personnel changes: Westwood Creative Artists

By Cassandra Drudi

Bridgette Kam is moving from the rights department to become a literary associate, working with Jackie Kaiser and Hilary McMahon. Caroline ... Read More »

April 12, 2021

Rights deals: Karma Brown, Chelene Knight + seven more

By Cassandra Drudi

Penguin Canada’s Lara Hinchberger has acquired Canadian rights and Dutton’s Maya Ziv has acquired U.S. rights to bestselling author Karma Brown’s What Wild Women Do. The novel is described as a dual timeline book set ... Read More »

April 8, 2021

Anne Carson to be honoured with $63K PEN/Nabokov Award

By Cassandra Drudi

Canadian poet Anne Carson has won the 2021 PEN/Nabokov Award for Achievement in International Literature. The $50,000 US ($63,000 CDN) award will be presented in a virtual ceremony on April 8. The award has been ... Read More »

April 8, 2021

Print book sales up in games, education, and thrillers in 2020: BookNet report

By Cassandra Drudi

The story of print book sales in Canada in 2020 in some ways mirrors the story of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic: print book sales were down overall, but some categories, including games, education, and thrillers, ... Read More »

April 1, 2021

Rights Deals: Mark Messier, Brandi Morin + 13 more

By Cassandra Drudi

Simon & Schuster Canada’s senior vice-president and publisher Jennifer Bergstrom, president and publisher Kevin Hanson, and senior editor Justin Stoller, and Gallery Books’s assistant editor Max Meltzer have acquired North American rights to Mark Messier’s ... Read More »

April 1, 2021