by Cassandra Drudi

Shop Talk: Beach Reads Bookshop

Shop Talk is an occasional feature in which fledgling independent booksellers take Q&Q into their stores and share their reasons for opening and what business has been like so far. Beach Reads Bookshop 230 St ... Read More »

June 12, 2024

Lisa Alward wins 2023 Danuta Gleed Literary Award

By Cassandra Drudi

Lisa Alward has won the $10,000 Danuta Gleed Literary Award. The annual award, administered by the Writers’ Union of Canada, recognizes the best first collection of short fiction published in English by a Canadian author. Alward ... Read More »

June 12, 2024

Rights deal: Cale Plett

By Cassandra Drudi

Delacorte Press’s Alison Romig has acquired world English rights to Cale Plett’s The Saw Mouth in a pre-empt. The YA novel is described as a queer horror set in an atmospheric small town, in a ... Read More »

June 10, 2024

Star books editor moving to opinion team

By Cassandra Drudi

Toronto Star books editor Deborah Dundas has moved from the newspaper's culture team to its opinion team. In announcing the move, the paper said that Dundas will bring her book knowledge and relationships to the ... Read More »

June 10, 2024

Personnel change: HarperCollins Canada

By Cassandra Drudi

Award-winning magazine writer, author, and editor Lauren McKeon has joined HarperCollins Canada as executive editor, non-fiction reporting to editor-in-chief Jennifer Lambert. Drawing on her impressive record for longform narrative stories that engage with readers at Toronto ... Read More »

June 10, 2024

Rights deals: Mary Simon, Robert Rotenberg + one more

By Cassandra Drudi

Simon & Schuster Canada’s Adrienne Kerr has acquired world rights, with Rosemary Shipton editing, to Her Excellency the Right Honourable Governor General Mary Simon’s Ajuinnata: Never Give Up. The autobiography is described as a powerful and ... Read More »

June 6, 2024

Michelle Porter, Jack Wong among Atlantic Book Award winners

By Cassandra Drudi

The winners of the Atlantic Book Awards were named at a gala event in Halifax on June 5. Along with the annual book awards and the inaugural readers' choice award, the 2024 Atlantic Legacy Award ... Read More »

June 6, 2024

George McWhirter wins Griffin Poetry Prize for Homero Aridjis translation

By Cassandra Drudi

Vancouver-based Irish-Canadian poet, translator, editor, and teacher George McWhirter has won the Griffin Poetry Prize for his English translation of Mexican poet Homero Aridjis's Self-Portrait in the Zone of Silence. The winning book was announced ... Read More »

June 6, 2024

Amanda Peters, Karen Pinchin among 2024 Nova Scotia Book Awards winners

By Cassandra Drudi

The winners of the 2024 Nova Scotia Book Awards have been announced. Winners were named at an event in Dartmouth on June 3. The winners of the Atlantic Book Awards will be announced at an ... Read More »

June 5, 2024

Personnel changes: BookNet Canada

By Cassandra Drudi

Lauren Stewart has been named president and CEO of BookNet Canada. Stewart, who has been with BookNet since 2011, takes over from Noah Genner. Stewart served most recently as director of customer relations, conferences, and ... Read More »

June 5, 2024

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