Julia Kim has joined The Rights Factory as an assistant ... Read More »
June 17, 2024
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
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
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
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 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
Michael Guy-Haddock is joining Simon & Schuster Canada as vice president of sales as of June 17. Guy-Haddock will be focused on leading sales strategy and will be a key voice in the Canadian publishing ... Read More »
June 12, 2024
Sally Harding, one of the four founding partners of CookeMcDermid literary agency, is retiring. Harding, who is originally from Wellington, New Zealand, started the Harding Agency in 2005. It merged with the Cooke Agency in ... Read More »
June 12, 2024
Montreal writer and translator Aimee Wall has won the Max Margles Writing Residency. The three-week residency at the Tyrone Guthrie Centre in County Monaghan, Ireland, is facilitated by the Quebec Writers Federation. Wall will head ... Read More »
June 12, 2024
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
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