by Ryan Porter

Jon Klassen, David Kent among 15 from CanLit to receive the Order of Canada

The Right Honourable Julie Payette, Governor General of Canada, announced 105 new appointments to the Order of Canada on June 29. Alongside Saturday Night Live creator Lorne Michaels, astronaut Roberta Bondar, and music promoter Arthur ... Read More »

July 4, 2018

Daily Deals: Sharon Wood to write Everest memoir Rising; picture book from B.C. poet Tiffany Stone

By Ryan Porter

Random House/Schwartz & Wade senior editor Ann Kelley has acquired world rights to B.C. poet Tiffany Stone’s (Tree Song) picture book Silli's Sheep, about a man named Silli who resourcefully arranges his sturdy “sheep” (actually rocks) into ... Read More »

July 3, 2018

Daily Deals: Don’t Call It A Cult, about secretive NXIVM org, to Penguin Canada

By Ryan Porter

Penguin Canada publishing director Diane Turbide has acquired Canadian English rights to Don’t Call It a Cult, an account of the secretive NXIVM organization and its recently arrested founder Keith Raniere. Vice senior writer Sarah ... Read More »

June 28, 2018

Daily Deal: poet Mallory Tater to publish debut novel

By Ryan Porter

HarperCollins Canada editorial director Jennifer Lambert has acquired Canadian English-language rights to poet Mallory Tater’s debut novel The Birth Yard. The novel, set for publication in winter 2020, is about a present-day patriarchal cult where ... Read More »

June 26, 2018

New specialty bookstore King W. Books to prioritize Hamilton titles

By Ryan Porter

King W. Books, a new bookstore focused on art, design, and local titles, will open in Hamilton, Ontario, this September. The new shop will take over the former Bryan Prince Bookseller space, with the owners ... Read More »

June 25, 2018

Daily Deals: German rights sold for two David Chariandy books

By Ryan Porter

Ullstein Verlag has acquired German rights to David Chariandy’s essay I’ve Been Meaning to Tell You and Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize–winning novel Brother. The deal for Brother was arranged by Ron Eckel at Cooke International on behalf of ... Read More »

June 22, 2018

Daily Deals: Karma Brown sells cookbook novel to Dutton

By Ryan Porter

Dutton executive editor Maya Ziv has acquired U.S. rights to Toronto-area novelist and journalist Karma Brown’s Recipe for a Perfect Wife. The novel tells parallel narratives of a woman who finds a cookbook and becomes ... Read More »

June 21, 2018

How mainstream can queer lit get? Canada’s Ogilvie-nominated LGBTQ writers reflect

By Ryan Porter

In the past, queer fiction was so niche that our most beloved authors were largely unknown to straight readers. Writer and activist Larry Kramer bemoaned the issue in a Paper Magazine essay from October 2015, ... Read More »

June 21, 2018

Omar El Akkad among winners of $10,000 Kobo Emerging Writer Prize

By Ryan Porter

Omar El Akkad, Maria Qamar, and Sheena Kamal were named the winners of the third annual Kobo Emerging Writer Prizes on June 19. Canadian writers working in literary fiction, non-fiction, and mystery were each awarded ... Read More »

June 21, 2018

Diane Schoemperlen honoured with $50,000 Canada Council Molson Prize

By Ryan Porter

Kingston, Ontario–based writer Diane Schoemperlen has been awarded the $50,000 Canada Council for the Arts’ Molson Prize, announced on June 14. The 63-year-old author has written 14 books of fiction and non-fiction including her 2016 ... Read More »

June 21, 2018

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Jon Klassen, David Kent among 15 from CanLit to receive the Order of Canada

Daily Deals: Sharon Wood to write Everest memoir Rising; picture book from B.C. poet Tiffany Stone

Daily Deals: Don’t Call It A Cult, about secretive NXIVM org, to Penguin Canada

Daily Deal: poet Mallory Tater to publish debut novel

New specialty bookstore King W. Books to prioritize Hamilton titles

Daily Deals: German rights sold for two David Chariandy books

Daily Deals: Karma Brown sells cookbook novel to Dutton

How mainstream can queer lit get? Canada’s Ogilvie-nominated LGBTQ writers reflect

Omar El Akkad among winners of $10,000 Kobo Emerging Writer Prize

Diane Schoemperlen honoured with $50,000 Canada Council Molson Prize

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