CanLit icon Margaret Atwood is releasing a new book of nonfiction – this one an autobiography – later this year. The Book of Lives: A Memoir of Sorts will be published in Canada by McClelland ... Read More »
February 11, 2025
Access Copyright has released its new strategic plan, which identifies four complementary goals for the nonprofit organization going forward. The plan, developed by the board and select staff beginning in September 2024, outlines four goals: increase ... Read More »
February 10, 2025
Norton Young Readers’s Simon Boughton has acquired world rights to Tae Keller’s We Carry the Sun, illustrated by Rachel Wada. The picture book is described as a resplendent account of humankind’s relationship with our most ... Read More »
February 10, 2025
Writer, artist, and musician Vivek Shraya has been named senior editor at Random House Canada. Random House Canada publisher Sue Kuruvilla announced Shraya's appointment on Feb. 10. She will begin her new role on March ... Read More »
February 10, 2025
More than 20 organizations have received a total of $100,000 in events grant funding from the Access Copyright Foundation. The organization released the list of 24 organizations that received the 2024 grants for events last ... Read More »
February 10, 2025
Ada Ferrer, a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian of Latin America and the Caribbean, has been named chair of the 2025 Cundill History Prize jury. Ferrer, who was born in Cuba and based in the U.S., was ... Read More »
February 6, 2025
Canadian writers Norma Dunning, Kim Fu, and Tessa McWatt are among the five-person jury for this year's Carol Shields Prize for Fiction. The jury, announced on Feb. 6, will be chaired by American writer Diana ... Read More »
February 6, 2025
Orca Book Publishers’s Sarah Howden has acquired world rights to Natasha Deen’s Lark Wraps It Up, to be illustrated by Marcus Cutler. The chapter book is described as the eighth and final book in the ... Read More »
February 6, 2025
Canadian independent publishers continue to brace for the impact of a looming 25 per cent tariff on all Canadian goods entering the U.S. – but just as the eventuality of the tariffs is uncertain, so ... Read More »
February 5, 2025
ECW Press’s Jen Sookfong Lee has acquired world rights to Jes Battis’s It’s Only Forever: Labyrinth. The nonfiction book is described as a Pop Classics volume that explores Jim Henson’s 1986 film Labyrinth as an ... Read More »
February 3, 2025
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