by Cassandra Drudi

Winners of 2024 Canadian Jewish Literary Awards announced

The winners of the 10th annual Canadian Jewish Literary Awards have been announced. The annual awards recognize Canadian writing on Jewish themes and subjects. This is the second year that the Irving Abella Award in ... Read More »

October 2, 2024

Finalists announced for 2024 Balsillie Prize for Public Policy

By Cassandra Drudi

Four books covering a range of ideas and issues, from the Canadian housing crisis and mining to identity and human rights in the digital age, have been shortlisted for the 2024 Balsillie Prize for Public ... Read More »

October 2, 2024

Rights deals: Rebecca Fisseha

By Cassandra Drudi

Doubleday Canada’s editorial director of commercial publishing Bhavna Chauhan has acquired world rights to Rebecca Fisseha’s Only Because It’s You and a second, as-yet unnamed title in a two-book deal. The novel is described as ... Read More »

September 30, 2024

Darrel J. McLeod, John Vaillant among BC and Yukon Book Prize winners

By Cassandra Drudi

Authors Darrel J. McLeod and John Vaillant are among the eight writers named winners of the 2024 BC and Yukon Book Prizes. The winners of the annual awards, now in their 40th year, were announced ... Read More »

September 30, 2024

Tim Lilburn wins 2024 Cheryl and Henry Kloppenburg Award

By Cassandra Drudi

Award-winning poet and writer Tim Lilburn has been named the winner of the 2024 Cheryl and Henry Kloppenburg Award for Literary Excellence. The $10,000 annual prize, administered by the Saskatchewan Writers' Guild, honours a Saskatchewan ... Read More »

September 26, 2024

Rights deals: Kathy Page, Linda Trinh + one more

By Cassandra Drudi

Penguin Canada’s Lara Hinchberger has acquired English Canadian rights to Kathy Page’s Getting Better at Being Worse: Dispatches from That Other Place. The nonfiction book is described as a heart-rending but uplifting memoir in which ... Read More »

September 26, 2024

Jessica Rose named artistic director of gritLIT

By Cassandra Drudi

Jessica Rose is the new artistic director of Hamilton's gritLIT festival. The festival announced the news on Sept. 26. As artistic director, Rose will be responsible for leading the festival's vision and mission, and will ... Read More »

September 26, 2024

Mat Buntin named director and publisher of Wilfrid Laurier University Press

By Cassandra Drudi

Wilfrid Laurier University Press has named a new director and publisher. Mat Buntin will assume the role on Oct. 15, the academic press announced on Sept. 25. Buntin has worked in academic publishing for 17 ... Read More »

September 25, 2024

Donald Carr, Sean G. Meggeson win 2024 LCP Spoken Word Award

By Cassandra Drudi

Poets Donald Carr and Sean G. Meggeson have been named the winners of the 2024 LCP Spoken Word Award. The biannual prize, launched in the winter of 2023 by the League of Canadian Poets, celebrates ... Read More »

September 25, 2024