Need your book sold? Wayne Arthurson is on the case. The Edmonton-based crime writer behind the Leo Desroches and Camp 133 series struck his first deal as an agent earlier this month, a three-book deal ... Read More »
June 17, 2019
Dionne Brand has won the 2019 Trillium Book Award for The Blue Clerk (McClelland & Stewart). The $20,000 prize rewards literary excellence by a writer from Ontario. The Blue Clerk, a dialogue about writing between ... Read More »
June 14, 2019
Penguin Canada publisher Nicole Winstanley has acquired North American rights to Scotiabank Giller Prize–nominated short-story writer Zsuzsi Gartner’s debut novel, The Beguiling, to be published under the Hamish Hamilton imprint. The darkly humourous, urban gothic novel ... Read More »
June 14, 2019
The newly launched Ottawa-based Willenfield Literary Agency is welcoming new and established Canadian and international writers. The agency, founded by Akin Akinwumi, specializes in literary fiction, literary non-fiction, and general non-fiction. In a press release, ... Read More »
June 14, 2019
Chris Casuccio will be rejoining Westwood Creative Artists as an agent. Casuccio was first hired in 2006, and has ... Read More »
June 13, 2019
Penguin Random House Canada’s Anne Collins has acquired Tessa McWatt’s Shame On Me: An Anatomy of Race and Belonging. The book is an analysis of the race debate from a personal perspective. Publication is expected ... Read More »
June 13, 2019
Finally a safe space to indulge your Six Pence None The Richer fandom. In Toronto this summer, Penguin Teen Canada will pair three of its YA authors with screenings of iconic ’90s teen movies. The ... Read More »
June 13, 2019
Chris Ferrie knows that quantum physics isn’t seen as one of the “fun” sciences. But the Australian-based physicist – who was born in Chatham, Ontario – aims to make it a little more approachable with ... Read More »
June 13, 2019
Rights to Montreal-born novelist Mona Awad’s new book Bunny have been acquired by AMC, with plans to develop the novel as a television series. The book takes place at an exclusive MFA program in New ... Read More »
June 10, 2019
Sportswriter Cathal Kelly has won the $15,000 Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour for his memoir Boy Wonders (Doubleday Canada). The book recounts Kelly’s coming-of-age through the pop-culture obsessions of his childhood including Michael Jackson, Star ... Read More »
June 10, 2019
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