by Cassandra Drudi

Budget 2025 includes arts funding

Despite concerns that arts funding would potentially be on the chopping block in the 2025 budget, the first budget tabled during Prime Minister Mark Carney's term includes additional funding for the arts. Arts organizations were ... Read More »

November 5, 2025

Call it McClelland, Stewart and Ontario: A 1985 prediction of the future of Canadian publishing

By Cassandra Drudi

When marking the 50th anniversary of Quill & Quire in April, 1985, the late publisher Malcolm Lester had some fun predicting what the future of the Canadian publishing industry might look like at the time ... Read More »

November 5, 2025

Personnel change: UBC Press

By Cassandra Drudi

Randy Schmidt is the new assistant director, acquisitions at UBC Press. Schmidt joined UBC Press as an acquisitions editor in 1996 and has been instrumental in developing many lists and series, most notably Law & ... Read More »

November 4, 2025

Rights deals: Vikki VanSickle, Amber McMillan + four more

By Cassandra Drudi

Penguin Canada’s Deborah Sun de la Cruz has acquired Canadian English rights, and Minotaur’s Madeline Houpt has acquired U.S. rights at auction to Vikki VanSickle’s The Mystic and the Missing Girl. The novel is described ... Read More »

November 3, 2025

Personnel change: Tundra Book Group

By Cassandra Drudi

Penguin Random House Canada has announced a new leadership structure at Tundra Book Group – the children's publishing program will be led by co-publishers Tara Walker and Liz Kribs, effective immediately. The pair have worked ... Read More »

November 3, 2025

Lyndal Roper wins 2025 Cundill History Prize

By Cassandra Drudi

Lyndal Roper has won this year's $75,000 (U.S.) Cundill History Prize. The prize, administered by McGill University, is awarded annually to a book published in English that embodies historical scholarship, originality, literary quality, and broad ... Read More »

October 30, 2025

‘Reasons for optimism’ as Broadview Press marks 40 years of Canadian academic publishing

By Cassandra Drudi

When Don LePan started Broadview Press in 1985, he thought the independent academic publisher could go one of two ways: it would either be an instant success, with professors immediately recognizing the unfulfilled need it ... Read More »

October 29, 2025

Author, historian Tim Cook dies

By Cassandra Drudi

Author and historian Tim Cook, who served as the chief historian of the Canadian War Museum, has died. He was 54. The Canadian War Museum announced Cook's death on Oct. 26. Cook joined the museum ... Read More »

October 29, 2025

From the Archives: Editor’s letter from Q&Q’s inaugural issue

By Cassandra Drudi

April 1935 The Editor’s Quill We wish to make our editorial bow to the Bookselling and Stationery Trades in an entirely unobtrusive fashion. We are blowing no trumpets about ourselves, because we believe trumpet-blowing to ... Read More »

October 29, 2025

Rights deals: Mary Soderstrom, Wraychel Gilmore + two more

By Cassandra Drudi

Dundurn Press acquiring publisher Meghan Macdonald has acquired world rights to Mary Soderstrom's The Last Bridge. The novel is described as a suspenseful story set against Quebec’s construction industry scandals of the 2010s in which ... Read More »

October 27, 2025

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Quill and Quire

Budget 2025 includes arts funding

Call it McClelland, Stewart and Ontario: A 1985 prediction of the future of Canadian publishing

Personnel change: UBC Press

Rights deals: Vikki VanSickle, Amber McMillan + four more

Personnel change: Tundra Book Group

Lyndal Roper wins 2025 Cundill History Prize

‘Reasons for optimism’ as Broadview Press marks 40 years of Canadian academic publishing

Author, historian Tim Cook dies

From the Archives: Editor’s letter from Q&Q’s inaugural issue

Rights deals: Mary Soderstrom, Wraychel Gilmore + two more

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