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
Canada is about to lose one of its most consistently impressive small literary presses. Pedlar Press, located in St. John’s, will officially cease publishing at the end of 2020, says founder and co-publisher Beth Follett. ... Read More »
October 20, 2020
Madeleine Stratford is in a weird place with her relationship to her latest project, a translation of legendary Quebec writer Réjean Ducharme’s first novel. “You reach a point when you translate – or write a ... Read More »
September 17, 2020
It was in the process of cleaning out his home bookshelves some six years ago that David Caron hatched the idea that would grow into a new partnership with Annick Press. Caron, the owner and ... Read More »
August 31, 2020
In one of the more surprising announcements in recent memory, Toronto independent publisher ECW Press and children’s publisher Annick Press have entered into a collaborative partnership that will eventually see the transfer of majority ownership ... Read More »
August 27, 2020
Richard Gwyn had absolutely no interest in sports. For a British-born transplant to Canada, a country where an affinity for hockey is tantamount to a secular religion, that disinclination singled him out from the get-go. ... Read More »
August 27, 2020
The lavish volume Out North: An Archive of Queer Activism and Kinship in Canada (Figure 1 Publishing) brings together material from the ArQuives, the largest independent LGBTQ2+ archive in Canada. Co-authors Craig Jennex and Nisha ... Read More »
August 24, 2020
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