by Cassandra Drudi

Personnel change: Penguin Random House Canada

Penguin Random House Canada associate publisher Martha Leonard has been named to a new position as chief of staff to CEO Kristin Cochrane. Leonard, who first joined the publisher as an editorial assistant at Doubleday ... Read More »

April 7, 2025

Canadian book industry dodges latest trade-war crossfire – so far

By Cassandra Drudi

For Canadian publishers, printers, and booksellers, it appears that the tariff situation will not change, in spite of U.S. President Donald Trump's new tariff announcements on April 2. On Wednesday afternoon, Trump spoke to reporters ... Read More »

April 3, 2025

Rights deals: David Ben, Kerry Clare + five more

By Cassandra Drudi

Dundurn Press publisher Meghan Macdonald has acquired world rights to David Ben’s Queer Company: Tom Thomson and the Group of Seven. The nonfiction book is described as re-examining the life and legacy of Tom Thomson ... Read More »

April 3, 2025

Dominique Fortier, Canisia Lubrin shortlisted for 2025 Carol Shields Prize

By Cassandra Drudi

Canadian authors Dominique Fortier and Canisia Lubrin have been shortlisted for the 2025 Carol Shields Prize for Fiction. Canadian translator Rhonda Mullins is also on the shortlist for her translation of Fortier’s novel. The $150,000 ... Read More »

April 3, 2025

Alma Lee, literary champion, dead at 84

By Cassandra Drudi

Alma Lee, the founder of the Vancouver Writers Fest, has died. She was 84. Lee was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1940, and immigrated to Canada in 1967. She got her start in the Canadian ... Read More »

April 2, 2025

Tanya Talaga, Jane Philpott among authors shortlisted for 2025 Shaughnessy Cohen Prize

By Cassandra Drudi

Five books have been nominated for the Writers' Trust Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing. The annual prize, now in its 25th year, recognizes literary nonfiction about a political subject that is relevant to Canadian ... Read More »

April 2, 2025

Finalists for 2025 Nova Scotia Book Awards and Atlantic Book Awards announced

By Cassandra Drudi

The finalists for this year's Nova Scotia Book Awards and Atlantic Book Awards have been announced. The winners of both sets of awards will be announced at the Atlantic Book Festival later this spring. The ... Read More »

March 31, 2025

Independent press titles dominate 2025 Al & Eurithe Purdy Poetry Prize shortlist

By Cassandra Drudi

Five books – most of them from independent presses – have been shortlisted for the 2025 Al & Eurithe Purdy Poetry Prize. The $10,000 prize honours the most outstanding new poetry book published in Canada ... Read More »

March 31, 2025

Bookmark initiative to help customers shop Canadian titles

By Cassandra Drudi

A maple-leaf bookmark initiative launching this week will give book buyers an easy way to tell whether a given title is written by a Canadian author. The bookmark initiative, launched by a group of independent ... Read More »

March 31, 2025

Zg Stories rebrands as Serif

By Cassandra Drudi

Literary marketing agency Zg Stories has a new name. The agency, which was founded by Zoe Grams a decade ago, will now be known as Serif. The name change is accompanied by a major internal ... Read More »

March 31, 2025

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