by Cassandra Drudi

Nalo Hopkinson wins 2025 Sunburst Award

Nalo Hopkinson has won the $3,000 2025 Sunburst Award for Canadian Literature of the Fantastic -- making her a three-time winner of the award. Hopkinson was named the winner of this year's prize for her ... Read More »

September 11, 2025

New Alberta order bans sexually explicit images from school libraries

By Cassandra Drudi

Days after the Alberta government paused a controversial ministerial order that would have affected the books school libraries were able to make available to students this fall, Education Minister Demetrios Nicolaides has issued a new ... Read More »

September 10, 2025

California judge hits pause on Anthropic AI settlement to authors

By Cassandra Drudi

A $1.5 billion settlement that was proposed to address a ruling earlier this year that AI company Anthropic had violated copyright in acquiring pirated books to train its AI chatbots has been put on hold, ... Read More »

September 10, 2025

Shop Talk: Joie de Livres

By Cassandra Drudi

Shop Talk is an occasional feature in which fledgling independent booksellers take Q&Q into their stores and share their reasons for opening and what business has been like so far. Joie de Livres 5163 St-Laurent ... Read More »

September 10, 2025

Tanya Talaga, André Alexis among authors shortlisted for 2025 Toronto Book Award

By Cassandra Drudi

Six books have been shortlisted for the 2025 Toronto Book Award. With this year’s prize, the Toronto Book Awards have doubled in value: the winning author will now receive $20,000, and the shortlisted finalists each ... Read More »

September 10, 2025

Omar El Akkad, Miriam Toews among authors shortlisted for 2025 Hilary Weston Prize

By Cassandra Drudi

Omar El Akkad and Miriam Toews are among the five writers shortlisted for the 2025 Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction. The $75,000 award, now in its 15th year, recognizes excellence in literary nonfiction ... Read More »

September 10, 2025

Rights deals: Rosemary Counter and Brianna Bell

By Cassandra Drudi

Dundurn Press publisher Meghan Macdonald has acquired world rights to Rosemary Counter’s How I Spent My Summer: Iconic Canadians on the (Fun, Funny, Sweaty, Greasy, & Gross) Jobs that Formed Them. The nonfiction book is ... Read More »

September 8, 2025

Rights deals: Dr. Kirsten Johnson, Marty Chan + two more

By Cassandra Drudi

Douglas & McIntyre has acquired World English rights to Dr. Kirsten Johnson’s Humanitarienne. The memoir is described as tracing Johnson’s journey from a troubled childhood to finding purpose and belonging through global humanitarian work, ultimately ... Read More »

September 4, 2025

Personnel change: P.S. Literary Agency

By Cassandra Drudi

Senior literary agent Maria Vicente has taken on the ... Read More »

September 4, 2025

Personnel change: Figure 1 Publishing

By Cassandra Drudi

Jenna Illies has joined Figure 1 Publishing in the newly created role of manager of author relations and community outreach. Illies, who is based in Toronto, has nearly two decades of PR experience, and has ... Read More »

September 4, 2025

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