by Cassandra Drudi

Mark Bourrie named winner of 2025 Pierre Berton Award

Author Mark Bourrie has been named the winner of the 2025 Governor General's History Award for Popular Media. The $5,000 Pierre Berton Award, as it is also known, is administered by Canada’s National History Society. ... Read More »

January 20, 2026

Rights deal: Emma White

By Cassandra Drudi

Newton Compton has acquired Italian rights in a pre-empt to Emma White's Venom Lake. The deal was arranged by Chiara Fumagalli at Berla & Griffini, on behalf of Carolyn Forde at Transatlantic Agency. HarperCollins Canada ... Read More »

January 19, 2026

Personnel changes: Penguin Random House Canada

By Cassandra Drudi

Bhavna Chauhan has been promoted to associate publisher at Doubleday Canada, where she will be overseeing overall list strategy and planning, directing backlist initiatives, overseeing editorial workflows and systems, and more while still maintaining her ... Read More »

January 19, 2026

Poet Anne-Marie Turza awarded inaugural Writer’s Trust Board Fellowship

By Cassandra Drudi

Victoria-based poet Anne-Marie Turza was named the recipient of the inaugural Writer's Trust Board Fellowship at the nonprofit's Storytellers Ball on Jan. 15. The fellowship, which comes with $50,000 and a two-week residency at the ... Read More »

January 15, 2026

Personnel changes: Canadian Manda Group

By Cassandra Drudi

Christina Vecchiato joins Canadian Manda Group as account manager, special markets. ... Read More »

January 15, 2026

Rights deals: Nancy Vo, Marcia Anderson + two more

By Cassandra Drudi

Groundwood Books’s Karen Li has acquired world rights to author-illustrator Nancy Vo’s Ellway. The picture book is described as a gently humorous story about a trio of companions who work together to problem-solve when they hear ... Read More »

January 15, 2026

2026 Spring Preview: Fiction

By Cassandra Drudi

Over the course of three instalments, Q&Q presents the titles we’re most excited about this spring. This week’s instalment features novels. Short fiction and poetry titles will be featured next week, with nonfiction to be ... Read More »

January 14, 2026

Former Vancouver Writers Fest artistic director and CBC host Hal Wake dead at 73

By Cassandra Drudi

Festival artistic director and literary champion Hal Wake has died. He was 73, and died at home on Vancouver Island on Jan. 7, according to his family. "He loved words. He loved books. He loved writers. ... Read More »

January 14, 2026

Orca Book Publishers acquires Polestar Calendars

By Cassandra Drudi

Orca Book Publishers has acquired Canadian calendar company Polestar Calendars. Polestar was started in the early 1980s by Julian Ross, who needed a better way to organize his time as a university student than the ... Read More »

January 14, 2026

Personnel changes: Kids Can Press

By Cassandra Drudi

Jennifer Grimbleby has been promoted to senior managing editor after 16 years with Kids Can Press. She previously served as managing editor. Genie MacLeod has been promoted to senior production editor from her previous role as production ... Read More »

January 14, 2026

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