by Cassandra Drudi

Rights deals: Eva Jurczyk, foreign rights for Adrian Tomine + 10 more

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

Kathryn Mockler and Raina Delisle win 2024 Victoria Book Prizes

By Cassandra Drudi

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

Julie Sedivy

By Cassandra Drudi

Julie Sedivy on her lifelong love of language

October 16, 2024

Rights deals: Evelyn White, Dietrich Kalteis + nine more

By Cassandra Drudi

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

Rights deals: Waubgeshig Rice, Josh Levine + eight more

By Cassandra Drudi

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

ECW Press marks 50 years

By Cassandra Drudi

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

Giller Prize announces five-title shortlist for 2024 prize

By Cassandra Drudi

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

Canisia Lubrin, Danny Ramadan among 2024 Governor General’s Literary Award finalists

By Cassandra Drudi

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

Rights deals: Bailey Hannah and Stephens Gerard Malone + six more

By Cassandra Drudi

Ballantine Bantam Bell executive editor Alicia Clancy has acquired U.S. English rights, Doubleday Canada’s Bhavna Chauhan has acquired Canadian English rights, and Orion's Sanah Ahmed has acquired U.K. English rights to Bailey Hannah’s Wells Ranch ... Read More »

October 7, 2024

Rights deals: Emily Cann, Tiffany Stone + seven more

By Cassandra Drudi

HarperCollins Canada’s Julia McDowell has acquired Canadian English rights to winner of the 2024 HarperCollins/UBC Prize for Best New Fiction Emily Cann’s Branches. The debut novel is described as being set in a future world ... Read More »

October 3, 2024

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