by Cassandra Drudi

Inanna Publications looks to the future with management transition

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

Free spirit and community still define Coach House after 60 years

By Cassandra Drudi

“Printed in Canada by mindless acid freaks” no longer appears on the pages of Coach House books or posters and the pressmen are no longer paid in acid – these days, the drug of choice ... Read More »

June 4, 2025

Jess Goldman, Phillip Dwight Morgan, and Dora Prieto named 2025 Bronwen Wallace Award winners

By Cassandra Drudi

Three writers have been named the winners of the 2025 RBC Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers. The award, established in 1994, grants $10,000 annually to a writer of fiction and poetry. It is administered ... Read More »

June 2, 2025

2025 Nova Scotia Book Awards winners announced

By Cassandra Drudi

Six writers have been named winners of the 2025 Nova Scotia Book Awards. The winners for the six awards were selected from finalists announced earlier this spring. They were announced at an event on June ... Read More »

June 2, 2025

Rights deal: A.W. Hopkins

By Cassandra Drudi

Bond Street Books’s Ward Hawkes and Janie Yoon have acquired Canadian English rights to A.W. Hopkins’s A Splendid Indian and Strange Highway in a two-book deal. A Splendid Indian is described as a collection of ... Read More »

June 2, 2025

Distribution changes: CamCat Books and Chicken Scratch Books

By Cassandra Drudi

Baker & Taylor Publisher Services will be taking on U.S. and Canada distribution for CamCat Books and ... Read More »

June 2, 2025

Personnel change: Emanata

By Cassandra Drudi

Irene Velentzas has joined Conundrum Press young adult imprint Emanata as editor as of June 1. Velentzas joins imprint founder Sal Sawler as co-editor until December 2026, when she will take over as editor as ... Read More »

June 2, 2025