by Cassandra Drudi

Daniel Levitin shortlisted for 2025 Royal Society science prize

Neuroscientist and author Daniel Levitin is among six writers shortlisted for the 2025 Royal Society Trivedi Science Book Prize. The £25,000 (about $46,265) annual prize has been awarded since 1988, and celebrates outstanding popular science ... Read More »

August 12, 2025

Vancouver nonprofit Upstart & Crow launches BIPOC writers residency

By Cassandra Drudi

Vancouver-based literary nonprofit Upstart & Crow has launched a new residency for BIPOC writers. The residency, which includes a $4,000 honorarium and one month of access to the organization's Granville Island studio, will begin in ... Read More »

August 12, 2025

Rights deals: Shayla Stonechild and Audrey Hyams Romoff

By Cassandra Drudi

Simon & Schuster Canada’s katherena vermette has acquired Canadian English rights to Shayla Stonechild’s Between Two Worlds and a second nonfiction work. The memoir is described as rooted in Stonechild’s lived experience through Plains Cree ... Read More »

August 11, 2025

Julie Delporte, Sarah Leavitt, Zoe Whittall among 2025 Canadian Lamba finalists

By Cassandra Drudi

Creators Julie Delporte, Sarah Leavitt, and Zoe Whittall are among the 12 Canadian and Canada-based writers who have been named finalists of the 2025 Lambda Literary Awards. The awards, granted in 26 categories and now ... Read More »

August 7, 2025

Rights deal: Kyo Maclear and Gracey Zhang

By Cassandra Drudi

Random House Studio’s Ann Kelley has acquired world rights to Kyo Maclear and Gracey Zhang’s Little Fireworks. The picture book, from the team behind the Caldecott Honor Award-winning Noodles on a Bicycle and The Big Bath House, is described ... Read More »

August 7, 2025

Lauren Perruzza named new LPG executive director

By Cassandra Drudi

Lauren Perruzza will become the new executive director of the Literary Press Group, effective Sept. 1, the organization announced on Aug. 6. Perruzza, who has served as the LPG's engagement manager for nearly eight years, ... Read More »

August 6, 2025

Distribution change: Modus Vivendi Publishing and Adventure Press

By Cassandra Drudi

The distribution arrangement between Modus Vivendi Publishing, Adventure Press, and Publishers Group Canada (PGC), a division of Raincoast Books, ended on ... Read More »

August 6, 2025

NeWest Press launching speculative fiction imprint

By Cassandra Drudi

NeWest Press is launching a new speculative fiction imprint this fall. Barbour Books, named after the late long-time NeWest president Douglas Barbour, will be edited by author and scholar Jenna Butler. The mandate of Barbour ... Read More »

August 5, 2025

Rights deals: Trina Moyles, Monique Polak + two more

By Cassandra Drudi

Pegasus Books deputy publisher Jessica Chase has acquired English-language rights in the U.S. to Trina Moyles’s Black Bear: A Story of Siblinghood and Survival. The narrative nonfiction is described as a luminous memoir of one ... Read More »

August 5, 2025