Rogers’s last episode as host of the weekly books radio show will air on June 24.
Telling Tales names Heather Kanabe as new executive director
Telling Tales, the children’s literary festival based in Hamilton, Ontario, has named Heather Kanabe their new executive director. She takes over for the festival’s founder Susan Jasper.
Eleanor Wachtel retiring from Writers & Company
Wachtel is retiring from her role as host and co-creator of the CBC radio show after 33 years.

Buffy Sainte-Marie on turning Tâpwê and the Magic Hat into an audiobook

Carol Shields Prize for Fiction shortlisted authors on their work and what being shortlisted means to them
The five writers shortlisted for the prize hail from different parts of the continent and their books differ widely in style and form, but each work contains important stories its author needed to tell.

Louise Dennys on her new role as publisher emerita
Louise Dennys would like to make one thing absolutely clear about her recent change in job title at her employer, Penguin Random House Canada: she is not retiring.

New kids’ series Ainara’s Bookshelf launches on TVOkids
The series, first launched on marbleKids’ YouTube channel on January 10, 2023, is hosted by 13-year-old co-creator, co-writer, and executive producer Ainara Alleyne of Hamilton, Ontario.
University of King’s College names inaugural director of writing and publishing
Gillian Turnbull has been named the inaugural director of writing and publishing at the University of King’s College in Halifax.

Toula Drimonis on her runaway success and Quebec’s politics of immigration
We, the Others: Allophones, Immigrants and Belonging in Canada (Linda Leith Publishing) chronicles Drimonis’s own family history and delves into the discrimination faced by Italians, Jews, Cambodians, Vietnamese, Sudanese and Syrians in the province.
Louise Dennys stepping down as executive publisher and executive vice-president of PRHC
Dennys will be moving into the new role of publisher emerita.