by Cassandra Drudi

Personnel changes: Simon & Schuster Canada

Kaitlyn Lonnee has been promoted to managing editor at Simon & Schuster Canada. Lonnee will take the managing editorial lead on all adult titles publishing under the Scribner Canada and Simon & Schuster Canada imprints. ... Read More »

July 17, 2025

Future uncertain for Giller Prize: report

By Cassandra Drudi

Thirty-one years after it was first awarded, the future of the Giller Prize is uncertain. Without stable funding, the Giller Foundation says the prize will be forced to end operations at the end of 2025, ... Read More »

July 17, 2025

Thistledown Press at 50: half a century of ‘a wonderful kind of continuity’

By Cassandra Drudi

In February 1976, Margaret Laurence – by then a Companion of the Order of Canada and a Governor General’s Literary Award-winning writer twice over – wrote a letter to Thistledown Press founder and poet Glen ... Read More »

July 16, 2025

Rights deals: Barbara Nickel, Tom Gauld + seven more

By Cassandra Drudi

Kids Can Press’s Katie Scott has acquired world rights to Barbara Nickel’s The Moon Is a Hammock, to be illustrated by Geraldo Valério. The picture book is described as a poetic exploration of the phases ... Read More »

July 14, 2025

Collaboration drives S&S Canada’s new children’s publishing program

By Cassandra Drudi

Collaboration – and fun – are at the heart of Simon & Schuster Canada’s new children’s publishing program. The program, which will launch in fall 2026 with three titles, has been built from the ground ... Read More »

July 9, 2025

Book Making: Inhabit Media’s Louise Flaherty on republishing an Inuit classic

By Cassandra Drudi

Louise Flaherty first encountered Amaruq: The Wolf as a teacher trainee in the Eastern Arctic Teacher Education program. Run by the Baffin Divisional Board of Education, the program was established in 1979 to train teachers ... Read More »

July 9, 2025

Personnel changes: Penguin Random House Canada

By Cassandra Drudi

David Ross has been named editorial director of Hamish Hamilton Canada. In his new role, Ross will caretake, curate, and grow the Hamish Hamilton Canada list, while continuing to acquire fiction and nonfiction both for Hamish Hamilton Canada and ... Read More »

July 9, 2025

Rights deal: David Jón Fuller

By Cassandra Drudi

Turnstone Press’s Jamis Paulson has acquired world rights to David Jón Fuller’s Venue 13. The speculative novel is described as following Robert Laliberte as he pursues his dream to convert a run-down building into a ... Read More »

July 3, 2025

Rights deals: Marina Nemat, Wayne Grady + five more

By Cassandra Drudi

Penguin Canada’s Lara Hinchberger and Zainab Mirza have acquired Canadian English rights to Marina Nemat’s Mistress of the Persian Boarding House. The historical novel is described as a story of women banding together in the ... Read More »

June 26, 2025

Personnel changes: Penguin Random House Canada

By Cassandra Drudi

Kelly Rankin has been named senior manager, customer operations at Penguin Random House Canada. Taylor Berry has been promoted to group director, in-market & digital sales. Serina Mercer has been hired as senior publicist for Penguin Random House ... Read More »

June 25, 2025

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