by Cassandra Drudi

Open Book ceasing operations at end of August

Open Book has announced it will cease operations as of August 31. The online publication, run by the Open Book Foundation, celebrated the Ontario literary scene, with a special focus on books and events from ... Read More »

July 27, 2026

July marks Margaret Laurence centenary

By Cassandra Drudi

Margaret Laurence, the celebrated novelist and foundational figure of modern Canadian literature who brought Prairie life to the page in her five-book Manawaka cycle (The Stone Angel, A Jest of God, The Fire-Dwellers, A Bird ... Read More »

July 17, 2026

Rights deals: Jordan Scott, Declan Hill + five more

By Cassandra Drudi

Neal Porter Books/Holiday House’s Taylor Norman has acquired world rights to Schneider Award-winning author of I Talk Like a River Jordan Scott’s Hot Spaghetti Brain!, to be illustrated by New Yorker artist Joana Avillez. The poetry ... Read More »

July 17, 2026

Ian Thornton

By Cassandra Drudi

Ian Thornton on the unlikely genesis of his nonfiction debut

July 15, 2026

Distribution change: House of Anansi Press and Groundwood Books

By Cassandra Drudi

Effective Aug. 1, books published by House of Anansi Press and Groundwood Books will be distributed in Canada by Jaguar Book Group, a division of Fraser Direct: Jaguar Book Group 52 Futura Drive Acton, ON ... Read More »

July 15, 2026

New Greystone series highlights narrative nonfiction nature backlist

By Cassandra Drudi

Greystone Books is launching a new paperback series this fall to bring some of its notable backlist nature writing titles to a fresh audience. The first three titles in the Greystone Nature Classics series, to ... Read More »

July 15, 2026

Personnel change: Dundurn Press

By Cassandra Drudi

Kaitlyn Csenkey has joined Dundurn Press’s sales and marketing team as publicist. Csenkey was previously marketing manager and then publishing associate at Mawenzi House and is currently enrolled in a Digital Marketing program at McMaster ... Read More »

July 14, 2026

Personnel change: The Rights Factory

By Cassandra Drudi

Stuti Shah has joined The Rights Factory as associate agent and associate film and TV agent, representing commercial and upmarket fiction across genres, narrative-driven nonfiction, and concept-driven books with film and TV adaptation potential. She ... Read More »

July 14, 2026

Rights deals: Zalika Reid-Benta, Wayne Arthurson + five more

By Cassandra Drudi

Tundra Books’s Lynne Missen has acquired world rights to Zalika Reid-Benta’s Esme’s Happy Place, to be illustrated by Camilla Sucre. The picture book is described as following Esme on the last day of summer as ... Read More »

July 13, 2026

Rights deal: Janna McFatridge

By Cassandra Drudi

Nimbus Publishing’s Angela Mombourquette has acquired world rights to journalist Janna McFatridge’s Unredacted: The Clayton Miller Story. The nonfiction book is described as a true crime story 35 years in the making about the investigation into ... Read More »

July 9, 2026

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