by Cassandra Drudi

Jael Richardson named winner of inaugural PACLA award

Author and literary festival director Jael Richardson has been named the winner of the Professional Association of Canadian Literary Agents's (PACLA) inaugural Publishing Professional of the Year Award for her work developing the FOLD literary ... Read More »

September 14, 2023

ReLit Awards cancelled after current year

By Cassandra Drudi

The ReLit Awards are going on hiatus. Katherine Alexandra Harvey, the executive director of the ReLit Literary Group, announced on September 12 that although the 2023 ReLit Awards will go ahead as planned, the prize ... Read More »

September 14, 2023

Rights Deals: Paul Harrietha and Ras Barrington Francis, Lorna Poplak + 14 more

By Cassandra Drudi

Dundurn Press president and publisher Kwame Scott Fraser has acquired world rights to Paul Harrietha and Ras Barrington Francis’s Tiga’s Tale: The Remarkable Life of Champion Boxer Barrington Francis. The nonfiction book is described as ... Read More »

September 14, 2023

Personnel change: Transatlantic Agency

By Cassandra Drudi

Eva Oakes has been hired as editorial & agent assistant to Samantha Haywood, president & literary agent at the Transatlantic Agency. Oakes began her work for Haywood at the Transatlantic Agency in 2022 as a ... Read More »

September 14, 2023

HarperCollins SVP Leo MacDonald to retire, Cory Beatty named VP sales and marketing

By Cassandra Drudi

HarperCollins Canada senior vice president of sales & marketing Leo MacDonald will be retiring this fall. MacDonald "has overseen an unprecedented evolution and growth trend" for the publisher, and his "hands-on approach and commitment has ... Read More »

September 13, 2023

Fitzhenry & Whiteside president and CEO Sharon Fitzhenry dead at 73

By Cassandra Drudi

Fitzhenry & Whiteside president and CEO Sharon Fitzhenry has died. She was 73. Fitzhenry died on August 26, 2023 according to COO Holly Doll. Fitzhenry was president, CEO, and majority shareholder at Fitz & Witz, ... Read More »

September 13, 2023

Alana Wilcox named 2023 Ivy Award recipient

By Cassandra Drudi

Coach House Books editorial director Alana Wilcox has been named the 2023 recipient of the Ivy Award. Wilcox will be given the award on September 25 at an event at the upcoming Toronto International Festival ... Read More »

September 13, 2023

Agency and distribution changes: Baker & Taylor Publisher Services

By Cassandra Drudi

Baker & Taylor Publisher Services has signed North American sales and distribution agreements with the following publishers: Bridge City Books, effective January 1, 2024, Energy Psychology Press, effective October 1, 2023, New Paradigm Publishers, effective ... Read More »

September 13, 2023

Memoir, short story collection, and play named 2023 Dayne Ogilvie Prize finalists

By Cassandra Drudi

The Writers' Trust of Canada has announced three finalists for the 2023 Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBTQ2S+ Emerging Writers. The annual $10,000 award is presented to a writer who identifies as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, ... Read More »

September 13, 2023

Rights Deal: Zak Jones

By Cassandra Drudi

Penguin Canada’s Lara Hinchberger has acquired Canadian English rights to Zak Jones’s Fancy Gap in a two-book deal. The debut novel is described as being set in the eponymous mountain region connecting North Carolina to ... Read More »

September 11, 2023

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