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.
Children’s author Aubrey Davis remembered as a captivating storyteller
Children’s author and storyteller Aubrey Davis, who published four award-winning picture books with Kids Can Press, is being remembered as an exuberant and captivating storyteller.
2022 in memoriam: those we lost
Chimwemwe Undi named new Winnipeg poet laureate
Undi will take over from current poet laureate Duncan Mercredi and serve as the city’s poet laureate for 2023 and 2024.
Figure 1 Publishing names new co-owner, vice-president
Bestselling author Peter Robinson dies at 72
David A. Robertson appointed editorial director of new imprint at Tundra Book Group
He will oversee a yet-to-be-named children’s imprint dedicated to publishing Indigenous writers and illustrators.
Sandra Dumais named IBBY Canada’s 2022 Joanne Fitzgerald Illustrator in Residence
The program, which offers a published Canadian children’s book illustrator a month-long residency at a public library, will be take place Toronto Public Library’s North York Central Library for the month of October.