Eva Oakes has been promoted to associate agent at the Transatlantic Agency. Oakes has worked at ... Read More »
September 25, 2024
Dear Agony Editor, Recently, I was speaking with a group of work colleagues about our creative pursuits. One person talked about being a musician, another brought up her photography. I said that I’d written two ... Read More »
September 25, 2024
Five books have been shortlisted for the 2024 Atwood Gibson Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize. The $60,000 annual prize recognizes the best short story collection or novel by a Canadian author. Each finalist receives $5,000. The ... Read More »
September 25, 2024
House of Anansi Press’s Shivaun Hearne and Karen Brochu have acquired North American English and Canadian French rights to Kate Hilton and Elizabeth Renzetti’s Put It to Bed and Kill Notice. The mystery novels are ... Read More »
September 23, 2024
Eight poets have been named finalists for the LCP Spoken Word Prize. The biannual prize, awarded by the League of Canadian Poets, was launched this year. Adeena Karasick and Ian Keteku were the winners of ... Read More »
September 23, 2024
Cormorant Books’s Marc Cote has acquired world rights to Hal Niedzviecki’s Darker Country: Memories, Madness and the March of the Living. The nonfiction book is described as a memoir and investigation which tells the story ... Read More »
September 19, 2024
Canadian poet and novelist Anne Michaels is one of three judges for the 2025 Griffin Poetry Prize. The prize announced the jury for next year's award on Sept. 18. Michaels is joined on the jury ... Read More »
September 19, 2024
Mississauga-based poet Qurat Dar has won the inaugural Claire Harris Poetry Prize, Goose Lane Editions announced. Dar's manuscript, Non-Prophet, was selected as the winner by poet Kazim Ali from dozens of entries. The Claire Harris ... Read More »
September 19, 2024
Al Cummings, who co-founded A Different Drummer Books and went on to launch Madison Press Books, has died. Cummings died in his 84th year after a brief illness. In 1970, he and John Richardson founded ... Read More »
September 18, 2024
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