by Cassandra Drudi

2025 Griffin Poetry Prize shortlist announced

The Griffin Poetry Prize has announced a shortlist of five books for the 2024 prize. The shortlisted titles were selected from a 10-book longlist announced last month. Three of the shortlisted titles are translations, and ... Read More »

April 23, 2025

Nine finalists named for 2025 RBC Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers

By Cassandra Drudi

Nine writers have been named finalists for 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. This year, the prize ... Read More »

April 23, 2025

Rights deals: Hon. Sergio Marchi, Michael R.J. Bonner + four more

By Cassandra Drudi

Dundurn Press publisher Meghan Macdonald has acquired world rights to the Honourable Sergio Marchi’s Pursuing a Public Life: How to Succeed in the Political Arena. The nonfiction book – the first in the Hon. Henry ... Read More »

April 17, 2025

Shortlist announced for $60K 2024 Donner Prize

By Cassandra Drudi

The COVID-19 pandemic, corporate governance, intimate partner violence, and the power of the courts are the topics examined by the five books shortlisted for the Donner Prize. The annual $60,000 prize, established in 1998, recognizes ... Read More »

April 16, 2025

Writers’ Trust announces 2025 Rising Stars

By Cassandra Drudi

Five writers have been named to the Writers' Trust of Canada 2025 Rising Stars cohort. Under the program, which was launched in 2019, five established authors each select a writer in the early stages of ... Read More »

April 16, 2025

Rights deals: Sadie McCarney, Justin Davis + two more

By Cassandra Drudi

ECW Press’s Michael Holmes has acquired world rights to Sadie McCarney’s The Bright Afters. The poetry book is described as a long poem about a small town, an act of devastating violence, and the courage ... Read More »

April 15, 2025

Canadian writers shortlisted for Commonwealth Short Story Prize

By Cassandra Drudi

Canadian writers Chanel Sutherland and Damhnait Monaghan are among the 25 writers shortlisted for the 2025 Commonwealth Short Story Prize. The prize is awarded annually to the best piece of unpublished short fiction between 2,000 ... Read More »

April 14, 2025

Personnel changes: Penguin Random House Canada

By Cassandra Drudi

Natalie Shefler has joined Penguin Random House Canada as assistant print producer for the Tundra Book Group list. Sarah Fallarino has joined as senior publicist, reporting to Erin Kelly. Lennox Roach has joined as workplace ... Read More »

April 14, 2025

Susie Taylor, Lisa Moore, Jack Whalen win 2024 BMO Winterset Awards

By Cassandra Drudi

Susie Taylor has won the 2024 BMO Winterset Award for fiction and Lisa Moore and Jack Whalen have won the 2024 BMO Winterset Award for nonfiction. Taylor was granted the prize for her short story ... Read More »

April 10, 2025

Deals: Lisa Whittington-Hill, Curtis LeBlanc + two more

By Cassandra Drudi

ECW Press’s Jen Sookfong Lee has acquired world rights to Lisa Whittington-Hill’s The Hills. The nonfiction book is described as an addition to the Pop Classics series that will look at how the early 2000s ... Read More »

April 10, 2025

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