Authors Darrel J. McLeod and John Vaillant are among the eight writers named winners of the 2024 BC and Yukon Book Prizes. The winners of the annual awards, now in their 40th year, were announced ... Read More »
September 30, 2024
Award-winning poet and writer Tim Lilburn has been named the winner of the 2024 Cheryl and Henry Kloppenburg Award for Literary Excellence. The $10,000 annual prize, administered by the Saskatchewan Writers' Guild, honours a Saskatchewan ... Read More »
September 26, 2024
Penguin Canada’s Lara Hinchberger has acquired English Canadian rights to Kathy Page’s Getting Better at Being Worse: Dispatches from That Other Place. The nonfiction book is described as a heart-rending but uplifting memoir in which ... Read More »
September 26, 2024
Jessica Rose is the new artistic director of Hamilton's gritLIT festival. The festival announced the news on Sept. 26. As artistic director, Rose will be responsible for leading the festival's vision and mission, and will ... Read More »
September 26, 2024
Wilfrid Laurier University Press has named a new director and publisher. Mat Buntin will assume the role on Oct. 15, the academic press announced on Sept. 25. Buntin has worked in academic publishing for 17 ... Read More »
September 25, 2024
Poets Donald Carr and Sean G. Meggeson have been named the winners of the 2024 LCP Spoken Word Award. The biannual prize, launched in the winter of 2023 by the League of Canadian Poets, celebrates ... Read More »
September 25, 2024
lly Shap has been promoted to editorial assistant, Knopf Canada. Jorge Ruiz-Isaac has joined as senior sales ... Read More »
September 25, 2024
Eva Oakes has been promoted to associate agent at the Transatlantic Agency. Oakes has worked at ... Read More »
September 25, 2024
Dear Agony Editor, Recently, I was speaking with a group of work colleagues about our creative pursuits. One person talked about being a musician, another brought up her photography. I said that I’d written two ... Read More »
September 25, 2024
Five books have been shortlisted for the 2024 Atwood Gibson Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize. The $60,000 annual prize recognizes the best short story collection or novel by a Canadian author. Each finalist receives $5,000. The ... Read More »
September 25, 2024
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