Dear Agony Editor, For the entirety of my fiction-writing career, I’ve sought attention for my work and myself. At the same time, I’ve wanted to hide under a rock, praying that no one would read ... Read More »
July 26, 2023
POETRY Theophylline: A Poetic Migration via the Modernisms of Rukeyser, Bishop, Grimké (de Castro, Vallejo) Erín Moure and Elisa Sampedrín House of Anansi Press, August Award-winning poet and translator Erín Moure looks for the future ... Read More »
July 26, 2023
The Access Copyright Foundation has announced the names of the 37 creators who have been awarded 2023 Marian Hebb Research Grants. This year's recipients received a total of $140,000 – the largest annual amount that ... Read More »
July 24, 2023
Dundurn Press president and publisher Kwame Fraser has acquired world rights to Jayda Hope’s Forgotten Descendents of Africville. The nonfiction book is described as journeying into the heart of one of Canada’s most horrendous acts of racism, and ... Read More »
July 24, 2023
Greystone Kids’s Rob Sanders has acquired three picture books from multi-award-winning Cree-Métis author-illustrator Julie Flett. Publication for the as-yet untitled books is expected for fall 2025, spring 2026, and fall 2026. The deal was arranged ... Read More »
July 20, 2023
The Librarianist Patrick deWitt House of Anansi Press, July Award winner Patrick deWitt returns after 2018’s French Exit with this novel about retired librarian Bog Comet who lives a solitary life surrounded by his books. ... Read More »
July 19, 2023
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. Slow Burn Books 1934 34 ... Read More »
July 19, 2023
Bukowski Agency intern Alison Thompson has been promoted to associate agent, effective immediately, and has begun developing ... Read More »
July 19, 2023
Gordon Hill Press’s Jeremy Luke Hill has acquired Canadian English rights to Blasphemy and Other Ancestors by Jean Marc Ah-Sen, Padgett Powell, Darius James, and Lee Henderson. The book is described as a collection of ... Read More »
July 17, 2023
Charlie Foran is stepping down from his role as executive director of the Writers' Trust of Canada. Foran assumed the role in January 2020, taking over from Mary Osborne, who held the post for seven ... Read More »
July 17, 2023
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