by Ryan Porter

Kerri Sakamoto’s Floating City wins Canada-Japan Literary Award

Kerri Sakamoto has won a $10,000 Canada-Japan Literary Award for her novel Floating City. Sakamoto’s third novel, about a Japanese boy’s journey from a B.C. internment camp to Toronto, where he remakes himself as a ... Read More »

November 22, 2018

Daily Deals: Book*hug to publish poet Moez Surani’s new collection; Dundurn acquires new middle-grade series

By Ryan Porter

Book*hug co-publishers Jay MillAr and Hazel Millar have acquired world rights to poet Moez Surani’s new collection Are the Rivers in Your Poems Real? Publication is expected in fall 2019. Dundurn has acquired North American rights ... Read More »

November 19, 2018

“Experimental” Joseph Conrad biography wins $75,000 Cundill History Prize

By Ryan Porter

Harvard University history professor Maya Jasanoff has won the $75,000 (U.S.) Cundill History Prize for her book The Dawn Watch: Joseph Conrad in a Global World. Jasanoff brings a personal perspective to the biography by ... Read More »

November 19, 2018

Daily Deals: Trigger Publishing to publish cellist Erika Nielsen’s memoir about bipolar disorder

By Ryan Porter

Trigger Publishing’s Hannah Abrahaley has acquired world English rights to cellist and visual artist Erika Nielsen’s memoir Sound Mind: My Bipolar Journey From Chaos to Composure. Publication is set for December 2018 in the U.K. and ... Read More »

November 15, 2018

How Gary Barwin and a string quartet are reimagining Yiddish for Pirates

By Ryan Porter

When author Gary Barwin kicks off a reading, it’s not uncommon for him to pull out a saxophone before opening his book. “I like to really make it into a performance, rather than the introverted ... Read More »

November 15, 2018

Lane Anderson Awards for science writing look to the future

By Ryan Porter

Robert William Sanford, an adviser on water issues to the United Nations, has won the Lane Anderson Award for science writing for his book Our Vanishing Glaciers: The Snows of Yesteryear and the Future Climate ... Read More »

November 14, 2018

Daily Deals: Penguin Canada to publish Sidney Crosby biography

By Ryan Porter

Penguin Canada associate publisher Nick Garrison has acquired North America English and French rights to Gare Joyce’s untitled book on Sidney Crosby. Joyce will tell the story of one of the most influential players ever to skate ... Read More »

November 14, 2018

$50,000 Writers’ Trust Fellowship awarded to Charles Foran

By Ryan Porter

Charles Foran has been named the fourth annual recipient of the Writers’ Trust Fellowship. The $50,000 prize is presented to a mid-career writer who has “demonstrated exceptional creative ability and outstanding promise in their publications ... Read More »

November 14, 2018

Personnel change: Leyla Top named engagement manager for LPG

By Ryan Porter

Leyla Top has joined The Literary Press Group of Canada as engagement manager. Top, who has extensive communications and marketing experience ... Read More »

November 12, 2018

Daily Deals: Dundurn acquires new novel from Leslie Shimotakahara; M&S to publish debut novel from Cedar Bowers

By Ryan Porter

Dundurn’s Kathryn Lane has acquired After the Bloom author Leslie Shimotakahara’s Red Oblivion. The novel is about a thirtysomething architect who returns from Toronto to her native Hong Kong and investigates her father’s secrets and blood-stained ... Read More »

November 12, 2018

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Kerri Sakamoto’s Floating City wins Canada-Japan Literary Award

Daily Deals: Book*hug to publish poet Moez Surani’s new collection; Dundurn acquires new middle-grade series

“Experimental” Joseph Conrad biography wins $75,000 Cundill History Prize

Daily Deals: Trigger Publishing to publish cellist Erika Nielsen’s memoir about bipolar disorder

How Gary Barwin and a string quartet are reimagining Yiddish for Pirates

Lane Anderson Awards for science writing look to the future

Daily Deals: Penguin Canada to publish Sidney Crosby biography

$50,000 Writers’ Trust Fellowship awarded to Charles Foran

Personnel change: Leyla Top named engagement manager for LPG

Daily Deals: Dundurn acquires new novel from Leslie Shimotakahara; M&S to publish debut novel from Cedar Bowers

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