The government of Nova Scotia has launched a $10 voucher program that will allow Nova Scotians to receive a discount on the cost of a book authored or published in the province. The Nova Scotia ... Read More »
October 27, 2025
BookFest Windsor / Festival du livre, the annual literary festival that was first held in the Southwestern Ontario city in 2002, has announced that it will be winding down operations. "With funding decreasing and fewer ... Read More »
October 27, 2025
Canadian poet Karen Solie has been named a joint winner of a 2025 Forward Prize for Poetry. The annual awards, which celebrate new poetry in the U.K. and Ireland, were first awarded in 1992. They are ... Read More »
October 26, 2025
Dundurn Press publisher Meghan Macdonald has acquired world rights to Sue Sorensen’s After Buster. The novel is described as a bittersweet comic novel about family, friendship, and romantic entanglement set in Regina, Saskatchewan, at the ... Read More »
October 23, 2025
In a story that may read as fairytale to aspiring writers, Vagrant Press, the fiction imprint of Halifax-based Nimbus Publishing, came into existence after its first two authors – Lesley Crewe and Allan Donaldson – ... Read More »
October 22, 2025
In April 1935, Quill & Quire published its first-ever issue with what it called an “entirely unobtrusive” editorial bow to the trades of stationery and bookselling, as outlined in the magazine’s inaugural editor’s letter. Over ... Read More »
October 22, 2025
As of September 2025, Orca Book Distribution is handling the distribution of Desert Ink ... Read More »
October 21, 2025
Two Ontario-based independent presses have announced a merger. Assembly Press, based in Picton, and Kingston-based poetry press Brick Books, announced a merger of operations on October 20. Under the new arrangement, each press will maintain ... Read More »
October 20, 2025
University of Toronto Press workers have voted in favour of a strike mandate. CUPE 3261, the union that represents more than 130 workers at the UTP Distribution warehouse as well as at University of Toronto ... Read More »
October 20, 2025
Maggie Helwig has won the 2025 Toronto Book Award for her book Encampment: Resistance, Grace, and an Unhoused Community. Helwig was one of six writers shortlisted for this year's award, which honours works of literary ... Read More »
October 16, 2025
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