Expect a combination of live conversations, presentations, and panels on various delivery platforms, as well as pre-recorded events with authors on stage.
Majority of Canada’s cultural programming for Frankfurt to be postponed to 2021
Nearly one-quarter of the events were able to happen before the global shutdowns, including a Stan Douglas exhibition.
RMB publisher Don Gorman creates new Google map tracking Black-owned bookstores
Of the 61 stores listed, only two are in Canada.
Indigo-owned Coles store in Prince Albert shuts down after 38+ years in business
A sign posted on the storefront says that the location will be closed effective immediately.
Eric Walters’s new pandemic novel took 41 days to write, edit, and publish
Don’t Stand So Close to Me tackles the world as it is right now: remote learning, physical distancing, quarantining, and the closing of all non-essential services.
Premiere issue of The Quarantine Review tackles life with COVID, social inequity, and haircuts
The Quarantine Review is a digital literary journal to be published by Dundurn. The premiere issue will launch June 6.
Canadian Heritage wants Canada’s Frankfurt Guest of Honour participation to be postponed to 2021
Canada is currently in talks with the next three Guest of Honour countries to discuss their interest in a possible postponement.
A “very special edition” of the Frankfurt Book Fair planned for October with Canada as Guest of Honour
More details about the Canada Guest of Honour plan are expected in the coming weeks.
J.K. Rowling releases new serialized story, The Ickabog, for free online
The story, which is aimed at seven- to nine-year-old children, is a fairy tale set in an imaginary land – and is totally unrelated to Rowling’s other works.
As provinces ease restrictions on retail, many booksellers proceed with caution
As B.C., Saskatchewan, and Ontario lifted restrictions on retail the week of May 19, the choice to reopen or not proved to be as individual as the varied independent bookstores across the provinces.
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