by Ryan Porter

Marianne Boucher finds healing in her graphic memoir of escaping a cult

In 1980, 18-year-old Marianne Boucher left her small town in Canada for Santa Monica, California, where she travelled to try-out for the Ice Capades. Instead, she was recruited by a charismatic band of young people ... Read More »

July 2, 2020

Daily Deals: Dundurn acquires Xue Yiwei novel about globalization

By Ryan Porter

Dundurn Press publisher Scott Fraser has acquired world English rights to Xue Yiwei’s novel Hilary, Miwa, & I. The book is about the dynamic between a Canadian woman, a Japanese woman, and a Chinese man ... Read More »

June 29, 2020

Personnel change: Transatlantic Agency

By Ryan Porter

Chelene Knight has joined the Transatlantic Agency as an associate agent. Knight is developing a list of authors working in fiction and memoir. Knight is the author of the poetry collection Braided Skin and the ... Read More »

June 29, 2020

Indigo expresses disappointment in J.K. Rowling over her views of the transgender community

By Ryan Porter

Indigo Books & Music Inc. posted a statement on Instagram on Friday calling J.K. Rowling’s views on the transgender community “inconsistent with our values.” The Harry Potter author questioned the gender-inclusive phrase “people who menstruate” ... Read More »

June 29, 2020

Distribution change: University of Texas Press and the University of New Mexico Press

By Ryan Porter

Effective July 1, UBC Press will be the exclusive Canadian distributor ... Read More »

June 25, 2020

Zalika Reid-Benta wins $10,000 Danuta Gleed Literary Award

By Ryan Porter

Zalika Reid-Benta has won the Danuta Gleed Literary Award for the best first collection of short fiction, The Writers’ Union of Canada announced on June 24. The Toronto writer won the $10,000 prize for her ... Read More »

June 25, 2020

Stéphane Larue’s The Dishwasher wins $60,000 Amazon First Novel Award

By Ryan Porter

Longueuil, Quebec, novelist Stéphane Larue has won the Amazon First Novel Award for The Dishwasher (Biblioasis/Biblioasis International Translation Series). The novel follows a graphic-design student in early aughts Montreal whose gambling addiction drives him to ... Read More »

June 25, 2020

Daily Deals: Tantor acquires audio rights to A. J. Vrana’s debut dark fantasy

By Ryan Porter

Tantor Media’s Kim Budnick has acquired North American English audio rights to A. J. Vrana’s The Hollow Gods. The forthcoming dark fantasy novel, the first in the Chaos Cycle duology, is set in a small ... Read More »

June 23, 2020

Daily Deals: French rights sold to Téa Mutonji’s Shut Up You’re Pretty

By Ryan Porter

Tête première’s Marie Demers has acquired world French rights to Téa Mutonji’s Shut Up You're Pretty. The debut story collection and first book from the Arsenal Pulp Press imprint VS. Books recently won the Trillium ... Read More »

June 22, 2020

In the wake of layoffs, Banff will offer two literary arts workshops online for fall

By Ryan Porter

Amid budget cuts and layoffs, the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity’s literary arts program will host just two workshops this fall. The three-day courses, dedicated to investigative journalism and to genre fiction, will be ... Read More »

June 22, 2020

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Marianne Boucher finds healing in her graphic memoir of escaping a cult

Daily Deals: Dundurn acquires Xue Yiwei novel about globalization

Personnel change: Transatlantic Agency

Indigo expresses disappointment in J.K. Rowling over her views of the transgender community

Distribution change: University of Texas Press and the University of New Mexico Press

Zalika Reid-Benta wins $10,000 Danuta Gleed Literary Award

Stéphane Larue’s The Dishwasher wins $60,000 Amazon First Novel Award

Daily Deals: Tantor acquires audio rights to A. J. Vrana’s debut dark fantasy

Daily Deals: French rights sold to Téa Mutonji’s Shut Up You’re Pretty

In the wake of layoffs, Banff will offer two literary arts workshops online for fall

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