ECW Press’s Pia Singhal has acquired world rights to Callie Rae O’Reilly’s Don’t Let Me Down: A Memoir on the Duality of Abuse and Love. The memoir is described as an intensely vulnerable account of ... Read More »
October 21, 2024
Polly Beel has joined Penguin Random House Canada as director, marketing and publicity for Random House Canada. Catherine Knowles has ... Read More »
October 17, 2024
Doubleday Canada’s Bhavna Chauhan has acquired Canadian English rights to Eva Jurczyk’s Paris, 11th Arrondissement at auction. The novel is described as a psychological thriller about a woman wildly unlucky in love, until she falls ... Read More »
October 17, 2024
The Victoria Book Prize Society announced the winners of the 2024 Victoria Book Prizes at an event in the B.C. capital on Oct. 16. Kathryn Mockler was awarded the $5,000 City of Victoria Butler Book ... Read More »
October 17, 2024
ECW Press’s Jen Sookfong Lee has acquired world rights to Evelyn White’s Love’s Labour. The biography is described as chronicling the complex, 44-year lesbian romance between Jane Rule (celebrated for her 1964 novel Desert of ... Read More »
October 15, 2024
Random House Canada publisher Sue Kuruvilla has commissioned, in a six-figure, two-book agreement, Canadian English rights to two books by Waubgeshig Rice. The first is described as a nonfiction book on Indigenous representation, and the ... Read More »
October 10, 2024
Jack David has told the origin story of ECW Press so many times he’s not even sure if it’s true anymore. In 1973, he was talking with some of his fellow grad students before a ... Read More »
October 9, 2024
The Giller Prize has announced the five books shortlisted for this year's $100,000 prize. The shortlisted books – four novels and one short story collection – were selected from a longlist announced last month. Canadian ... Read More »
October 9, 2024
The Canada Council for the Arts has named 70 finalists for the 2024 Governor General's Literary Awards. Each finalist receives $1,000, with the winners in each of the 14 categories to receive $25,000. Publishers of ... Read More »
October 8, 2024
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