More than 150 booksellers are slated to receive funding from the Canadian government to help them expand their online book sales over the next two years. The Canada Book Fund has earmarked $12 million to ... Read More »
November 16, 2022
Shop Talk is an occasional feature in which fledgling independent booksellers take Q&Q into their stores and share their reasons for opening and what business has been like so far. Four Points Books 1225a 7th ... Read More »
November 16, 2022
David Bradford, Trynne Delaney and Erin Shields are among the winners of the 2022 Quebec Writers' Federation Literary Awards. The winners were announced on Monday in Montreal at the event's first completely in-person gala in ... Read More »
November 16, 2022
Actor and director Anais Granofsky has been named the winner of this year's Ontario Speaker's Book Award for her memoir The Girl in the Middle: Growing Up Between Black and White, Rich and Poor. Ted ... Read More »
November 16, 2022
The Canada Council for the Arts has announced the winners of the 2022 Governor General's Literary Awards. Winners in each category receive $25,000, with publishers of the winning titles receiving $3,000 to promote the book. ... Read More »
November 16, 2022
Dundurn Press has acquired world rights to Olympic gymnast and former Cirque du Soleil artist Mary Sanders's Nine Lives by Thirty-Five. The nonfiction book is described as blending personal narrative and a how-to for women ... Read More »
November 14, 2022
Effective immediately, Tagona Press has entered into a distribution agreement with Dundurn Press. Tagona Press, a Sault Ste Marie–based publisher specializing in high quality nature photography books, will be represented to the trade by Hornblower ... Read More »
November 14, 2022
Scholastic Canada’s Anne Shone has acquired world rights to Richard Scrimger’s At the Speed of Gus. The middle-grade novel is described as following the comically escalating adventure of charismatic 13-year-old Augustus Constantine, whose mind (and ... Read More »
November 10, 2022
Montreal writer Tawhida Tanya Evanson has been named the winner of the Blue Metropolis/Conseil des arts de Montréal New Contribution Literary Prize. The New Contribution Literary Prize, awarded annually, includes a $5,000 award and aims ... Read More »
November 9, 2022
Calgary author Suzette Mayr has been named the winner of the 2022 Scotiabank Giller Prize for her sixth novel, The Sleeping Car Porter. Mayr was awarded the prize at a televised gala in Toronto on ... Read More »
November 8, 2022
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