by Cassandra Drudi

Raymond B. Blake wins 2025 Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing

History professor Raymond B. Blake has won the 2025 Writers’ Trust Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing. The annual award, now in its 25th year, recognizes literary nonfiction about a political subject that is relevant ... Read More »

September 24, 2025

M&S to mark The Handmaid’s Tale’s 40th anniversary

By Cassandra Drudi

In the 40 years since it was first published, Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid's Tale has been translated into more than 40 languages, sold more than eight million copies in English, and inspired an Emmy-winning television ... Read More »

September 24, 2025

Personnel change: Transatlantic Agency

By Cassandra Drudi

Trudi Vaughan has been appointed literary assistant at Transatlantic Agency to senior agents ... Read More »

September 24, 2025

Rights deal: Genevieve Graham and Vicki Grant

By Cassandra Drudi

Simon & Schuster Canada’s Adrienne Kerr has acquired North American English rights to Genevieve Graham’s The Chambermaid’s Key. The novel is described as a gripping dual-timeline novel set at an elegant hotel in Toronto in ... Read More »

September 22, 2025

Rights deals: Jessica Hamilton and Syrus Marcus Ware and Ra’anaa Yaminah Ekundayo

By Cassandra Drudi

Simon & Schuster Canada’s Adrienne Kerr has acquired, in a two-book deal, North American English rights to Jessica Hamilton’s The Woods and a second untitled book. The Woods is described as a horror novel that ... Read More »

September 18, 2025

Bond Street Books marks 20th anniversary with CanLit expansion

By Cassandra Drudi

Doubleday Canada imprint Bond Street Books is marking its 20th anniversary this year by broadening its focus: moving forward, the imprint will include Canadian authors alongside its international heavyweights. Maya Mavjee, Doubleday Canada’s publisher in ... Read More »

September 17, 2025

Ottawa Book Awards announce 2025 shortlists

By Cassandra Drudi

The Ottawa Book Awards have announced three shortlists for the 2025 awards. The annual awards, granted in three categories, honour literary excellence in French and English books by Ottawa writers in the previous year. The ... Read More »

September 17, 2025

OBPO calls on Ontario to earmark funds for Canadian books in education

By Cassandra Drudi

The Ontario Book Publishers Organization is drawing attention to the longstanding under-representation of Canadian books in Ontario schools and calling on the provincial government to create a fund that would allow public schools and libraries ... Read More »

September 17, 2025

Shortlist announced for 2025 Atwood Gibson Writers’ Trust Prize

By Cassandra Drudi

Five books have been shortlisted for the 2024 Atwood Gibson Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize. This year, the Writers' Trust has announced that the purse for the annual prize will rise to $70,000, with finalists to ... Read More »

September 17, 2025

14 books longlisted for 2025 Giller Prize

By Cassandra Drudi

The longlist for the 2025 Giller Prize has been announced, and the 14-book list of titles vying for the annual $100,000 prize this year includes a mix of works from veteran and debut authors and ... Read More »

September 15, 2025

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