by Cassandra Drudi

Living Nightmares: An insurgence of Indigenous horror rouses the haunting spectres of settler colonialism

The explosion of Indigenous literary talent has launched an invigorating reverse-colonization of genre fiction: freed from staid expectations that we will limit ourselves to naturalistic and didactic narratives designed for the consumption and edification of ... Read More »

October 18, 2023

Finalists announced for 2023 National Business Book Award

By Cassandra Drudi

A collection of first-person essays about leading companies through the COVID-19 pandemic, a memoir of a life that began in rural Jamaica and led to Bay Street, and a look at how the world should ... Read More »

October 18, 2023

Personnel change: Penguin Random House Canada

By Cassandra Drudi

Sabrina Papas has joined Penguin Random House Canada as ... Read More »

October 18, 2023

Personnel change: P.S. Literary Agency

By Cassandra Drudi

At P.S. Literary Agency, literary assistant Nour Sallam’s role has ... Read More »

October 18, 2023

Former Stoddart managing editor Donald Bastian dead at 71

By Cassandra Drudi

Donald Bastian, who worked for a number of years as managing editor at Stoddart Publishing before moving on to create his own publishing companies, has died. He was 71. He died on Oct. 3 at ... Read More »

October 17, 2023

Rights Deals: Wanda Taylor and Dimitri Nasrallah

By Cassandra Drudi

Nimbus Publishing’s Whitney Moran has acquired world rights to Wanda Taylor’s Brothers in the Sky: How Canadian Pilots Allan Bundy and George Borden Blazed a Trail for Black Aviation. The middle-grade nonfiction book is described ... Read More »

October 17, 2023

Cundill History Prize finalists announced

By Cassandra Drudi

Three books dealing with very different periods in history have been selected as finalists for the 2023 Cundill History Prize. The annual $75,000 (U.S.) prize, administered by McGill University, is awarded to a book that ... Read More »

October 16, 2023

Rights Deals: Kate Segriff, Carol Off + three more

By Cassandra Drudi

Riddle Fence Publishing has acquired Edinburgh Short Story Prize winner Kate Segriff’s Animals in Captivity. The debut short story collection will be the first book published by Riddle Fence’s Debuts imprint. Publication is expected for ... Read More »

October 12, 2023

Sheila Heti, Gabor Maté among 2023 Vine Award winners

By Cassandra Drudi

Sheila Heti and Gabor Maté are among the five authors named winners of the 2023 Vine Awards for Canadian Jewish Literature. The annual awards honour Canadian writers who are Jewish or who deal with Jewish ... Read More »

October 12, 2023

2023 Giller Prize shortlist announced

By Cassandra Drudi

Five books – four of them published or distributed by Penguin Random House Canada – have been named to the shortlist for the 2023 Scotiabank Giller Prize. Jury members Ian Williams and Sharon Bala announced ... Read More »

October 11, 2023

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