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
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 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 The prize is awarded annually to the best piece of unpublished short fiction between 2,000 ...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
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 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
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
Two long-time Drawn & Quarterly employees have new titles to reflect their shared co-ownership status. Ownership of the Montreal-based independent graphic novel-focused press changed hands in the summer of 2023 from founder Chris Oliveros to ... Read More »
April 10, 2025
Lucia Gargiulo has been promoted to editor at Drawn & Quarterly, effective immediately. Gargiulo has been with D&Q for ... Read More »
April 10, 2025
Meredith Dees has joined Random House Canada as senior editor, nonfiction. Dees was previously senior editor at Robert Rose where she successfully developed a line of personality and design-driven cookbooks, including Edgy Veg by Candice Hutchings, ... Read More »
April 10, 2025
Finalists have been named for the 2025 B.C. and Yukon Book Prizes. The annual awards, now in their 41st year, are administered by the West Coast Book Prize Society and celebrate the achievements of B.C. ... Read More »
April 10, 2025
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