by Cassandra Drudi

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

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

Sutherland House Books acquires Fitzhenry & Whiteside

By Cassandra Drudi

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

Personnel change: Simon & Schuster

By Cassandra Drudi

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

Rights deals: James King, Lucinda M. Vardey + three more

By Cassandra Drudi

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

Jaime Black-Morsette

By Cassandra Drudi

Artist Jaime Black-Morsette on the new anthology, REDress: Art, Action, and the Power of Presence

March 26, 2025

Login Canada urges Canadians to speak out against counter-tariffs

By Cassandra Drudi

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

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