by Sue Carter

Q&Q’s sexual-harassment survey: what are our next steps?

This story appeared in Q&Q’s sexual-harassment survey feature in the May 2019 print edition. Q&Q’s sexual-harassment survey called upon respondents to offer suggestions as to how the industry can improve itself. One of the most ... Read More »

April 22, 2019

Q&Q’s sexual-harassment survey: the results

By Sue Carter

This story appeared in Q&Q’s sexual-harassment survey feature in the May 2019 print edition. In early February, Q&Q ran a survey hoping to better understand the prevalence of sexual harassment within the Canadian publishing industry. ... Read More »

April 22, 2019

Art Canada Institute responds to a demand for physical art books

By Sue Carter

In late 2013, when Sara Angel founded the Art Canada Institute – an educational non-profit dedicated to producing online books and events – she was on a mission to bring Canadian art history into contemporary ... Read More »

April 18, 2019

Coach House poetry program returns with new advisory board

By Sue Carter

Toronto indie press Coach House Books is reinstating its poetry program after a yearlong hiatus from acquiring new titles. Coach House editorial director Alana Wilcox will work over the next year alongside a new interim advisory ... Read More »

April 17, 2019

Loan Stars: Librarians pick their favourite upcoming May titles

By Sue Carter

Each month, Canadian library staff vote for their favourite upcoming books, via BookNet Canada’s Loan Stars readers-advisory program and the Canadian Urban Libraries Council. Me, Myself, They: Life Beyond the Binary, Joshua M. Ferguson (House ... Read More »

April 17, 2019

Daily Deals: Gary Barwin’s Holocaust-Western novel to Random House Canada; D&M picks up Christa Couture’s debut

By Sue Carter

Knopf Random Canada Group publisher Anne Collins has acquired North American English-language rights to Gary Barwin’s novel, Nothing the Same, Everything Haunted, described as a "cross-pollination between cowboy fiction and Holocaust literature, featuring Motl, a middle-aged Lithuanian Jew, ... Read More »

April 16, 2019

Kate Harris selects Jessica J. Lee as winner of the RBC Taylor Emerging Writer Award

By Sue Carter

Berlin-based author and environmental historian Jessica J. Lee has been named recipient of this year's $10,000 RBC Taylor Emerging Writer Award. As part of the prize purse, she will also receive mentorship from Kate Harris, who selected ... Read More »

April 16, 2019

D. Nandi Odhiambo wins prestigious Hawaiian literary prize

By Sue Carter

African-Canadian author D. Nandi Odhiambo has been named one of the winners of this year's Elliot Cades Award for Literature, considered to be Hawaii's most prestigious literary honour. The awards, which are run by the Hawaii ... Read More »

April 16, 2019

Joe Books files for bankruptcy; owes major creditors including Hachette, Friesens, more than $3.7 million

By Sue Carter

Toronto publisher Joe Books has filed for bankruptcy, owing its creditors more than $3,750,000. Joe Books was founded in 2015 by audio producer Jody Colero and Jay Firestone, a TV and film producer. The company published books, ... Read More »

April 15, 2019

Distribution change: Medicine Wheel Education

By Sue Carter

Effective May 1, Publishers Group Canada is the distributor for all channels of Medicine Wheel Education. Medicine Wheel Education provides culturally authentic ... Read More »

April 9, 2019

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Q&Q’s sexual-harassment survey: what are our next steps?

Q&Q’s sexual-harassment survey: the results

Art Canada Institute responds to a demand for physical art books

Coach House poetry program returns with new advisory board

Loan Stars: Librarians pick their favourite upcoming May titles

Daily Deals: Gary Barwin’s Holocaust-Western novel to Random House Canada; D&M picks up Christa Couture’s debut

Kate Harris selects Jessica J. Lee as winner of the RBC Taylor Emerging Writer Award

D. Nandi Odhiambo wins prestigious Hawaiian literary prize

Joe Books files for bankruptcy; owes major creditors including Hachette, Friesens, more than $3.7 million

Distribution change: Medicine Wheel Education

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