Patrick deWitt has won the 2024 Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour. DeWitt was named the winner of the $25,000 prize for his novel The Librarianist (House of Anansi Press) at a gala in Orillia, ... Read More »
June 24, 2024
Award-winning novelist and poet katherena vermette has been appointed senior editor at Simon & Schuster Canada. The Michif writer and editor's list will focus on celebrating talent from Indigenous, 2SLGBTQIA+, and other underserved communities, and will ... Read More »
June 24, 2024
Six writers have been named recipients of the 2024 Indigenous Voices Awards for their published work in French and English. The recipients were awarded a combined total of $20,000, and were selected from finalists announced ... Read More »
June 21, 2024
After shortlists dominated by independent presses were announced earlier this spring, the winners of the 2024 Trillium Book Awards continued that trend. The winners were announced at a ceremony in Toronto on June 20. The ... Read More »
June 20, 2024
Yellow Dog/Great Plains Publications’ Catharina de Bakker has acquired world English rights to Pam Withers’s Cave-In. The YA novel is described as combining nail-biting caving adventure with a clash between industry and the environment in ... Read More »
June 20, 2024
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
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
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 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
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