The Giller Prize has announced its jury for the 2025 prize. Author and creative writing professor Dionne Irving will chair the jury for this year's prize. She was shortlisted for the Giller in 2023 for ... Read More »
January 15, 2025
The Kingston Writers Festival is no more. In a press release issued this month, the festival announced it was closing because of "mounting financial pressures," caused in part by reduced attendance and increased operational costs. ... Read More »
January 15, 2025
Effective Jan. 1, 2025, Barefoot Books will be represented in Canada by the Canadian Manda Group. Barefoot Books will continue to be distributed by Jaguar Book Group. Effective Jan. 1, 2025, Insight Editions (including Weldon Owen) is represented in ... Read More »
January 14, 2025
Second Story Press has a new owner and publisher. After decades at the helm, co-founder and publisher Margie Wolfe has transferred ownership of the Toronto-based feminist and social-justice-driven independent publisher to Phuong Truong. Truong has ... Read More »
January 13, 2025
Scholastic Canada’s Diane Kerner has acquired, with Erin Haggett editing, world English and French North American rights to Carol Matas’s Mia & Max in an exclusive submission. The middle grade novel is described as telling ... Read More »
January 13, 2025
Tundra Books’s Lynne Missen has acquired, at auction, world rights to Heather Smith’s My Best Friend is a Butternut Squash, illustrated by Kass Reich. The picture book is described as telling the story of a ... Read More »
January 10, 2025
Megan Konzelman has been promoted to senior publicist, lifestyle, at Penguin Random House Canada, overseeing the cookbook and lifestyle lists. Erica Brandao has been promoted to assistant, insights and analytics on a six-month contract. Samantha Devotta has been ... Read More »
January 9, 2025
Signal publisher Doug Pepper has acquired world rights to Darrell Bricker and John Ibbitson’s Breaking Point: How the Next Big Shift Puts Canada at Risk. The nonfiction book by the authors of The Big Shift ... Read More »
January 7, 2025
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