Carrianne Leung has won the $10,000 Danuta Gleed Literary Award for her linked-story collection That Time I Loved You.
Personnel change: P.S. Literary Agency
Janet Hawkins, program consultant at Ontario Creates, is remembered as a passionate advocate for publishers and writers
Janet Hawkins, a program consultant at Ontario Creates and champion of the province’s publishing industry, died on May 27.
Personnel change: Penguin Canada
Canadian library users buy more books
A new survey by BookNet Canada reports that, on average, Canadian library-goers buy more books than those who don’t frequent the library at all.
Daily Deals: New Farzana Doctor novel to Dundurn; Indian rights for Samra Zafar’s A Good Wife
How urban libraries across the country are balancing the demand for safety with users’ needs
What’s behind the rash of issues in Canada’s downtown libraries? In short, a city’s societal problems – like poverty, alcohol and drug abuse, violence, and mental-health crises – have a habit of seeping into its libraries.
Daily Deals: multiple deals for Dundurn Press
Rose Vespa on the future direction of the Canadian Children’s Book Centre
In January, Rose Vespa joined the Canadian Children’s Book Centre as the new executive director, a position that oversees some of the country’s most important kidlit programs
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