by Cassandra Drudi

Personnel changes: Transatlantic Agency

Associate agent Eva Oakes has been promoted to international rights coordinator at the Transatlantic Agency. Oakes will be representing all of Samantha Haywood’s author clients excluding North America and select clients for the agency on a title-by-title basis. ... Read More »

June 18, 2025

Leslie Jamison wins 2025 Weston International Award

By Cassandra Drudi

American author and essayist Leslie Jamison has been named the winner of the 2025 Weston International Award. The $75,000 award, administered by the Writers' Trust of Canada, honours an international author for their career achievement ... Read More »

June 18, 2025

Rights deals: Grace Kennedy

By Cassandra Drudi

Nimbus Publishing editor Claire Bennet has acquired world rights to journalist Grace Kennedy’s Canada’s Endangered Animals with illustrations by Alex MacAskill. The nonfiction book is described as a book for young readers that details the ... Read More »

June 16, 2025

Rights deals: Kathleen Winters, Rachel Phan + four more

By Cassandra Drudi

Book*hug Press co-publishers Jay MillAr and Hazel Millar have acquired world English rights to Kathleen Winters’s Tanglewyld; A Mountain Polyphony. The poetry collection is described as being told in polyphonic, non-human voices of the mountain, ... Read More »

June 12, 2025

H Felix Chau Bradley named 2025 Max Margles resident

By Cassandra Drudi

Montreal writer and editor H Felix Chau Bradley has been named the recipient of the 2025 Max Margles Writing Residency in Ireland. Chau Bradley is the fourth writer to receive this residency, which is administered ... Read More »

June 12, 2025

Personnel changes: Dundurn Press

By Cassandra Drudi

Sara Ibrahim has joined Dundurn Press as sales associate and is responsible for special sales. Ibrahim was previously at Penguin Random House and at The Rights Factory and Indigo Books & Music. Janna Green has ... Read More »

June 12, 2025

Distribution change: Rebel Goose Books

By Cassandra Drudi

Orca Book Publishers will distribute Rebel Goose Books in Canada and the U.S. The ... Read More »

June 11, 2025

Inanna Publications looks to the future with management transition

By Cassandra Drudi

When Radiant Press co-publisher Debra Bell heard last year that Inanna Publications was going to start winding down its book publishing program, she decided she had to do something about it. Since the unexpected death ... Read More »

June 11, 2025

Canisia Lubrin wins $10,000 2024 Danuta Gleed award

By Cassandra Drudi

Poet and author Canisia Lubrin has won the 2024 Danuta Gleed Award for Code Noir, her first collection of short fiction. The $10,000 prize, administered by the Writers’ Union of Canada, is awarded annually to ... Read More »

June 9, 2025

Rights deals: Zoé Duhaime, Marissa Stapley + seven more

By Cassandra Drudi

Erewhon Books associate editor Viengsamai Fetters has acquired North American rights to Zoé Duhaime’s The Lost Spectacular in a two-book deal at auction. Solaris’s Amy Borsuk has acquired U.K. rights, also in a two-book deal. ... Read More »

June 5, 2025

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