by Cassandra Drudi

Rights deals: Rachel Wada, Bronwyn Brennan + two more

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

Vivek Shraya named senior editor at Random House Canada

By Cassandra Drudi

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

Access Copyright Foundation announces 2024 events grant recipients

By Cassandra Drudi

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

Historian Ada Ferrer to chair 2025 Cundill Prize jury

By Cassandra Drudi

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

Norma Dunning, Kim Fu, Tessa McWatt on 2025 Carol Shields jury

By Cassandra Drudi

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

Rights deals: Natasha Deen

By Cassandra Drudi

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 indie publishers bracing for uncertain impact of U.S. tariffs

By Cassandra Drudi

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

Rights deals: Jes Battis, Cordelia Strube + four more

By Cassandra Drudi

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

Giller Foundation ends partnership with lead sponsor Scotiabank

By Cassandra Drudi

The Giller Foundation and Scotiabank have ended their 20-year partnership. Elana Rabinovitch, the executive director of the foundation, which oversees the annual Giller Prize, said in an email on Feb. 3 that "following discussions, Scotiabank ... Read More »

February 3, 2025

FOLD director Jael Richardson on a decade at the helm

By Cassandra Drudi

Jael Richardson is ready for just about anything. As founder and executive director of the Festival of Literary Diversity, she has had to oversee a lot of unexpected disruptions during the festival’s first decade – ... Read More »

January 29, 2025

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