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
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
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
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
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
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
Nearly 60 years after it was founded, Fitzhenry & Whiteside has a new owner. President and CEO Holly Doll is retiring, and Sutherland House Books will be taking over the backlists of Fitzhenry & Whiteside ... Read More »
March 28, 2025
Amanda Betts will be joining Simon & Schuster Canada as executive editor on April 8. Betts previously worked at Knopf Canada for almost 15 years, most recently as senior editor. At Knopf, Betts developed a ... Read More »
March 28, 2025
Sutherland House’s Ken Whyte has acquired world rights to James King’s biography of the renowned Canadian photographer Edward Burtynsky. The nonfiction book is described as telling readers not only of Burtynsky’s adventures around the globe, ... Read More »
March 27, 2025
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