by Cassandra Drudi

Agony Editor: Let flippant comments lie

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

Shortlist announced for 2024 Atwood Gibson Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize

By Cassandra Drudi

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

Rights deals: Kate Hilton and Elizabeth Renzetti, Catherine Leroux + four more

By Cassandra Drudi

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 named finalists for LCP Spoken Word Prize

By Cassandra Drudi

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

Rights deals: Hal Niedzviecki, Kelly Kaur + four more

By Cassandra Drudi

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

Anne Michaels named to 2025 Griffin Poetry Prize jury

By Cassandra Drudi

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

Qurat Dar wins inaugural Claire Harris Poetry Prize

By Cassandra Drudi

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

Personnel change: Penguin Random House Canada

By Cassandra Drudi

Ashley Dunn has been promoted to associate ... Read More »

September 19, 2024

Al Cummings, co-founder of A Different Drummer and Madison Press, has died

By Cassandra Drudi

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

Brittany Lavery wins 2024 PACLA award

By Cassandra Drudi

Simon & Schuster editor Brittany Lavery has been named the second-ever winner of the Professional Association of Canadian Literary Agents’s (PACLA) Publishing Professional of the Year Award. PACLA agents nominated and voted for the person ... Read More »

September 18, 2024

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