by Cassandra Drudi

Kluane First Nation wins 2024 Indigenous History Book Prize

The Kluane First Nation has won this year's Indigenous History Book Prize, an annual national award that honours the best book about Indigenous history. Lhù’ààn Mân Keyí Dań Kwánje Nààtsat: Kluane Lake Country People Speak ... Read More »

June 19, 2024

Personnel changes: CookeMcDermid

By Cassandra Drudi

Shivani Ojha has joined CookeMcDermid as contracts and operations assistant. Ojha joins CookeMcDermid from Penguin Random House Canada, where most recently she had internships with Penguin Canada editorial and PRHC’s sales and operations. Ojha reports ... Read More »

June 19, 2024

Rights deals: Kate Robson, Léa Taranto + one more

By Cassandra Drudi

Simon & Schuster Canada president and publisher Nicole Winstanley has acquired North American rights to Kate Robson’s Something to Hold Onto. The nonfiction book is described as an uplifting collection of literary metaphors, images, and ... Read More »

June 17, 2024

Historian Renee Fossett wins William Mills Prize for Non-Fiction Polar Books

By Cassandra Drudi

Historian and author Renee Fossett has been named the winner of the 2024 William Mills Prize for Non-Fiction Polar Books. Fossett won the award for The Life and Times of Augustine Tataneuck: An Inuk Hero ... Read More »

June 17, 2024

Personnel change: The Rights Factory

By Cassandra Drudi

Julia Kim has joined The Rights Factory as an assistant ... Read More »

June 17, 2024

Naomi Klein wins Women’s Prize for Nonfiction

By Cassandra Drudi

Naomi Klein has won the inaugural Women’s Prize for Non-fiction. The £30,000 ($50,900 CAD) award was established by the Women’s Prize Trust in 2023 to honour exceptional nonfiction written by women. Books written by women ... Read More »

June 13, 2024

Rights deals: Jessica Cunsolo + two more

By Cassandra Drudi

Wattpad Books’s Deanna McFadden has acquired world rights to Jessica Cunsolo’s The Blind Date Agreement, with Fiona Simpson editing. The YA romance is described as the story of a girl who agrees to go on ... Read More »

June 13, 2024

Personnel change: Baraka Books

By Cassandra Drudi

Leila Marshy has been appointed fiction editor at Baraka Books. Marshy has been working with the Quebec-based publisher since early 2024. As fiction editor, she will be responsible for selecting, editing, production, and post-publishing follow-up ... Read More »

June 13, 2024

Personnel change: Simon & Schuster Canada

By Cassandra Drudi

Chloe Gandy will be joining Simon & Schuster Canada as publishing assistant to the president and publisher as of June 17. ... Read More »

June 13, 2024

Taste Canada announces 2024 award shortlists

By Cassandra Drudi

Taste Canada has announced the 2024 shortlists for its 10 culinary writing awards. The annual awards, now in their 27th year, celebrate Canadian cookbooks with gold and silver winners in five English- and five French-language ... Read More »

June 13, 2024

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Kluane First Nation wins 2024 Indigenous History Book Prize

Personnel changes: CookeMcDermid

Rights deals: Kate Robson, Léa Taranto + one more

Historian Renee Fossett wins William Mills Prize for Non-Fiction Polar Books

Personnel change: The Rights Factory

Naomi Klein wins Women’s Prize for Nonfiction

Rights deals: Jessica Cunsolo + two more

Personnel change: Baraka Books

Personnel change: Simon & Schuster Canada

Taste Canada announces 2024 award shortlists

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