by Cassandra Drudi

Personnel change: Tundra Book Group

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

Nova Scotia offers consumers $10 voucher for books from N.S. authors, publishers

By Cassandra Drudi

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 announces festival closure

By Cassandra Drudi

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

Karen Solie named joint winner of Forward poetry prize

By Cassandra Drudi

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

Rights deals: Sue Sorensen, Selin Kahramanoğlu + three more

By Cassandra Drudi

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

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