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.
Obituary: Leona Trainer, August 1, 1935–April 30, 2020
Leona Trainer, age 84, passed away peacefully on April 30, 2020.
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.
Daily Deals: S&S announces Peter Mansbridge book, Arsenal acquires short story collection from Chelsea Vowel
Indigo’s financial difficulties have a blowback effect for Canadian publishers and distributors
Arsenal Pulp’s Brian Lam receives special Lambda for publishing
The special honour recognizes a publisher who has promoted LGBTQ literature.
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.
Scholastic shifts marketing campaign online for Hunger Games prequel
Denise Anderson, Scholastic Canada’s director of marketing and publicity, shares behind-the-scenes details about the campaign for the blockbuster The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, which launched officially May 19.
Forest of Reading winners will be announced at an online ceremony
OLA has partnered with CBC Books for a 40-minute online award ceremony, which will take the place of the three-day, multiple city event.
Telling Tales Festival goes virtual for 2020
Kevin Sylvester emcees the festival’s launch video and introduces the authors and illustrators taking part in this year’s online event.
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