Penguin Group Canada announced cutbacks to its trade publishing program and laid off a senior editor Wednesday, as the company seeks to refocus its list on areas in which it is known internationally – literary ... Read More »

Veteran editor John Pearce has re-emerged as a literary agent with Westwood Creative Artists. He will begin working at Westwood on June 1, just over a year after his position with Random House of Canada ... Read More »

Tilting at prizes – A St. John’s architect and professor’s journal of life in a Newfoundland village has won the Winterset Award for Newfoundland writing.Robert Mellin has won $5,000 for his book Tilting, published by ... Read More »

After months of public meetings, protests, and presentations arising from the Regina Public Library’s plan to close three branches this spring, a library task force has submitted a 127-page report to the library board, to ... Read More »

Indigo has announced plans to close three SmithBooks locations next month, two in Quebec and one in Toronto.The move follows the closing of a Chapters superstore in Winnipeg on the weekend, and the SmithBooks closings ... Read More »

For two and a half years, Paul Cavanagh slogged away on his novel, finding the time where he could, mainly after work and on weekends. The aspiring writer planned to first complete Northwest Passage, as ... Read More »

Lobster Press has failed to meet the terms of its creditor payment proposal, causing another creditor meeting to be called for next month.The Montreal children’s publisher, which filed for bankruptcy protection last year, has fallen ... Read More »

W.O. Mitchell Prize shortlist – A novel, a short-story collection, and a poetry title are all up for the City of Calgary W.O. Mitchell Book Prize, worth $2,000.The three nominees are Susan Ouriou’s Damselfish (XYZ ... Read More »

Greg Gatenby, the longtime public face of the Harbourfront Reading Series and International Festival of Authors until his ouster last summer, has resurfaced in the book world. Gatenby will launch a monthly column in Books ... Read More »