The finalists for this year’s Nova Scotia Book Awards and Atlantic Book Awards have been announced. The winners of both sets of awards will be announced at the Atlantic Book Festival later this spring. The ... Read More »
March 30, 2026
Bookmason House has acquired Peter Swirski’s Behold a Virgin in an exclusive, five-figure deal. The novel is described as an upmarket investigative mystery set in London in March 1957 that follows Detective Inspector Shepard through ... Read More »
March 30, 2026
After a two-year hiatus, applications are open to the BIPOC of Publishing in Canada mentorship program. The mentorship pairs BIPOC publishing professionals with those aspiring to enter the industry, including students enrolled in publishing programs ... Read More »
March 26, 2026
Douglas & McIntyre’s Anna Comfort O’Keeffe and Blackstone Publishing’s Stephanie Koven have acquired Canadian and U.S. rights respectively to Rachel Rose’s The Scarlet Daughter. The debut novel is described as imagining the story of Hester ... Read More »
March 26, 2026
Canadian journalist Lyse Doucet is one of six writers shortlisted for the 2026 Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction. Doucet, who is the chief international correspondent for the BBC, was nominated for The Finest Hotel in Kabul: A ... Read More »
March 25, 2026
Eight years after Game Changer, the first book in Rachel Reid’s male-male hockey romance series, was published by Harlequin imprint Carina Press, sales of all six books in the series show no signs of abating. ... Read More »
March 25, 2026
Gemma Paynter has joined P.S. Literary Agency as associate literary agent. ... Read More »
March 24, 2026
Ten poets have been named to the longlist for the 2026 Al and Eurithe Purdy Poetry Prize. The $10,000 prize, established in 2024 by Al Purdy's widow Eurithe Purdy and administered by the Al Purdy A-Frame Association, ... Read More »
March 24, 2026
Finalists have been announced in 26 categories for the 2026 Lambda Literary Awards, and a number of Canadian authors, including Rebecca Salazar, Jordan Tannahill, and jaye simpson, are among those shortlisted. Winners for the annual ... Read More »
March 24, 2026
Owlkids Books’s Jennifer Stokes at has acquired, in a three-book deal, an early chapter book series from Tiffany Stone, illustrated by Hayley Lowe. The first title, The Haunted Greenhouse, is described as introducing Dr. Frankenvine, an ... Read More »
March 19, 2026
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