January 21, 2021
Freehand Books, the Calgary trade publisher that spun off from the academic press Broadview Books in 2007, has been sold. Glenn Rollans, a publishing veteran in Alberta and owner of the Edmonton higher-ed publisher Brush ... Read More »
January 11, 2021
Canada has lost one of its groundbreaking feminist publishers. Luciana Ricciutelli, editor-in-chief at Toronto’s Inanna Publications, died on December 14, 2020, at the age of 62. A survivor of breast cancer, Ricciutelli died suddenly a ... Read More »
January 4, 2021
Since publishing his first book, the novel Some Great Thing, in 1992, novelist and non-fiction writer Lawrence Hill has met two editors of colour: one at HarperCollins who subsequently decamped for the U.S., and Janie ... Read More »
December 10, 2020
When Austin Clarke died in 2016, the bulk of his backlist was out of print. His 2002 Scotiabank Giller Prize–winning novel, The Polished Hoe, was still available, alongside his final novel, 2008’s More and his ... Read More »
December 3, 2020
AugurCon, the online gathering of speculative-fiction writers and readers being run by the Canadian spec-fic literary journal Augur, faced a number of hurdles to get up and running, from the ordinary challenges of programming a ... Read More »
November 26, 2020
The holiday bookselling season is always a logistical challenge for distributors – a time during which a large amount of inventory moves through the supply chain at lightning speed. This year, with COVID-19 continuing to ... Read More »
November 19, 2020
The second week in November is going to be a celebration of university and academic presses across Canada and the U.S., with a series of online events and a special webinar dedicated to Indigenous voices ... Read More »
November 9, 2020
A major force in the world of Canadian poetry is stepping down from publishing. On Oct. 22, an online retirement party was held to honour Kitty Lewis, who is leaving her role as general manager ... Read More »
October 26, 2020
For Janie Yoon, the year 2013 was paramount in informing her outlook regarding forgotten or neglected books from the past. That was the year that the NYRB Classics reissue of John Williams’s 1965 novel Stoner ... Read More »
October 26, 2020
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