Effective July 1, UBC Press will be the ... Read More »
June 18, 2020
Insomniac Press, an independent press based in London, Ontario, has announced a new mandate and editorial board. The press's new mandate is “to amplify voices that resist oppression.” The press has also announced new principles ... Read More »
June 18, 2020
The Trillium Book Awards, honouring writers from Ontario, have announced Téa Mutonji and Roxanna Bennett as the 2020 English-language winners. Mutonji wins the Trillium Book Award (English) for her first book, the short-story collection Shut ... Read More »
June 17, 2020
McClelland & Stewart has announced an anti-racism action plan that will see new mentorships, a paid editorial fellowship, a looser submission process, and a “Black Brilliance” edition of the annual Journey Prize Canadian short-story collection. ... Read More »
June 17, 2020
McClelland & Stewart’s Jared Bland and Jenny Bradshaw have secured world rights to a commission from Lauren McKeon for a book tentatively titled Women of the Pandemic. The book will provide a narrative record – through ... Read More »
June 17, 2020
The Young Readers’ Choice Awards Society of B.C. named the Red Cedar Award winners: Too Young to Escape: A Vietnamese Girl Waits to be Reunited with Her Family by Van Ho and Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch ... Read More »
June 17, 2020
Montag Press’s Charlie Franco has acquired Canadian, foreign, and film rights to Mike Sauve’s Chelsea Parker's Pity Party. The YA novel is about frenemies Chelsea and Stacey and is set against a madcap plot that ... Read More »
June 15, 2020
HarperCollins Canada imprint Patrick Crean Editions has acquired, at auction, Canada English rights to writer and journalist Harrison Mooney's memoir The Boy Who Saw What Wasn't There. The book is described as a jaw-dropping account ... Read More »
June 11, 2020
The Association of Canadian Publishers is building a database of freelancers in the publishing industry who belong to marginalized communities. Those who self-identify as BIPOC, LGBTQ2s+, disabled, or another underrepresented group are invited to add ... Read More »
June 11, 2020
Bookseller Shevaun Pierre has only been taking online orders since March at her mobile bookstore Notability, but there are two words that she's seeing pop up more frequently: “sold out.” As anti-Black racism protests have ... Read More »
June 11, 2020
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