Four Canadian authors among Dublin Literary Award nominees

Four Canadian authors are among the 69 writers nominated for the 2026 Dublin Literary Award. The annual €100,000 prize, worth about $162,000, honours excellence in world literature. Titles are nominated by public libraries from around ... Read More »

November 19, 2025

Rebecca Eckler launching commercial Jewish imprint, Rivkah Books

By Cassandra Drudi

RE:Books publisher Rebecca Eckler is launching the imprint she always wanted to create: a commercial Jewish imprint that will publish books across genres in fiction and nonfiction. Called Rivkah Books, the imprint takes its name ... Read More »

November 19, 2025

Souvankham Thammavongsa wins 2025 Giller Prize

By Cassandra Drudi

For the second time in five years, Souvankham Thammavongsa has been named the winner of the $100,000 Giller Prize. Thammavongsa, who won the Giller in 2020 for her debut short story collection How to Pronounce ... Read More »

November 18, 2025

Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, Maria Reva, Roza Nozari among Writers’ Trust award winners

By Cassandra Drudi

Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, Maria Reva, and Roza Nozari are among the winners of the 2025 Writers' Trust Awards. The winners of the organization's annual book prizes, as well as the winners of four awards that ... Read More »

November 13, 2025

Rights deals: Matt James, Rachelle Delaney + six more

By Cassandra Drudi

Neal Porter Books’s Taylor Norman has acquired world rights to author-illustrator Matt James’s Ray. The picture book is described as following a lovestruck boy who takes a leap of faith, falls literally and figuratively in love, and ... Read More »

November 13, 2025

New best practices outline how to identify Indigenous content in product metadata

By Cassandra Drudi

Two newly published bibliographic standards Best Practices documentations for the publishing industry outline how to highlight Indigenous content and contributors in book metadata. Published by EDItEUR, the international trade standards body for book, e-book, audiobook ... Read More »

November 12, 2025

Personnel change: Rakuten Kobo

By Cassandra Drudi

Ashleigh Gardner has joined Rakuten Kobo as VP self-publishing & Kobo Originals. Gardner, who previously worked at Kobo from 2010 to 2013, brings a wealth of experience from her recent tenure at Wattpad, where she ... Read More »

November 12, 2025

Books BC launches limited-edition Read Local book boxes

By Cassandra Drudi

Read Local BC has launched a trio of limited-edition book boxes designed to help people give the gift of reading this holiday season while also supporting British Columbia–based independent publishers. The three book boxes, each ... Read More »

November 10, 2025

Rights deals: John Elizabeth Stintzi, Robin Stevenson + one more

By Cassandra Drudi

Arsenal Pulp Press’s Brian Lam has acquired world rights to John Elizabeth Stintzi’s Guest Services at the Museum of Sexual Deviance. The novel is described as a kinky speculative novel-in-stories set in a fractured America ... Read More »

November 6, 2025

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