by Cassandra Drudi

Rights deal: Emily LaBarge

Hamish Hamilton Canada editorial director David Ross has acquired Canadian rights to Emily LaBarge’s Dog Days. The nonfiction book is described as a high-voltage synthesis of personal essay, criticism, and psychoanalytic theory—unfolding in the aftermath ... Read More »

July 21, 2025

Five books shortlisted for 2025 Sunburst Award

By Cassandra Drudi

Five books have been shortlisted for the 2025 Sunburst Award for Canadian Literature of the Fantastic. This year marks a return of the annual $3,000 award after a four-year hiatus. Jurors Natalee Caple, Geoff Ryman, ... Read More »

July 21, 2025

Rights deals: Hank Idsinga, Kai Cheng Thom + three more

By Cassandra Drudi

Simon & Schuster Canada executive editor Jim Gifford has acquired world rights to Hank Idsinga’s The High Road: Memories of a Homicide Cop. The nonfiction book is described as a true crime memoir in which ... Read More »

July 17, 2025

Personnel changes: Simon & Schuster Canada

By Cassandra Drudi

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

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