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
Login Canada has joined the growing chorus of book industry voices calling for books and other educational materials to be exempt from the upcoming Canadian counter-tariffs. The Canadian government intends to impose a 25 per ... Read More »
March 26, 2025
Julia McDowell has joined Doubleday Canada as senior editor. Julia was previously editor at HarperCollins where her publishing list focused on practical nonfiction, including Unconditional by Dr. Samra Zafar, Jessica Moorhouse’s Everything but Money, Duncan McKenzie’s The World’s ... Read More »
March 25, 2025
Michael Crummey is one of six writers shortlisted for the 2025 Dublin Literary Award. This year marks the 30th for the €100,000 prize, which is worth about $147,000. The shortlisted titles were chosen from a 71-title ... Read More »
March 25, 2025
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