More books by Indigenous authors have been pledged towards Ontario public schools by Anishinabek Nation, Portage & Main Press, and HarperCollins.
Transatlantic Agency bolsters U.S. presence as Jill Corcoran named partner
On July 16, Toronto-based literary agency Transatlantic announced Jill Corcoran, president of Jill Corcoran Literary Agency, as partner and senior agent.
No forecasted outcome: Writer Sarah Sawler on co-authoring with YouTube weather star Frankie MacDonald
When Nimbus Publishing asked freelance writer Sarah Sawler to co-author a book with YouTube star Frankie MacDonald, they had no idea what the book would look like.
The Marrow Thieves author Cherie Dimaline remains true to her role as a Métis “storykeeper” amid international acclaim
The meteoric rise of her dystopian novel, currently in its ninth printing, has kept Dimaline and her publisher on their toes.
Stopwatch Gang member and bestselling author Stephen Reid dies at age 68
Stephen Reid, author and member of the notorious Stopwatch Gang that pulled off a high-profile string of robberies in the 1970s, died on June 12 at the age of 68.
Chantel Guertin says goodbye to Pippa Greene
In May, Toronto author and TV beauty expert Chantel Guertin wrapped up her Pippa Greene YA series with the fourth instalment, Golden Hour.
Diversity driving sales in kidlit, says Book Summit keynote Zareen Jaffery
Zareen Jaffery, the keynote speaker at the Toronto publishing conference Book Summit, on her role as acquiring editor for Simon & Schuster’s Muslim children’s book imprint, Salaam Reads.
Remembering David McFadden, 1940–2018
“I am happy,” wrote the poet David McFadden in a 2014 article for Toronto Life.
Pedlar Press founder Beth Follett looks forward to returning to her own writing after more than 20 years of nurturing writers’ books
When Pedlar Press founder Beth Follett was a young woman growing up in 1970s Winnipeg, she wanted to become a poet.
Winnie Yeung says collaborating on a young Syrian refugee’s story proved educational for both
I am not a writer by profession, but literature is my passion. I teach English language arts and ESL in an Edmonton junior high school. Usually, when I ask my students to write about their lives, even just their summer vacations, I’m met with whining. “I don’t know what to write!” So I was delighted when, one day in my office, a Grade 9 student named Abu Bakr al Rabeeah, who had fled the civil war in Syria, shared his secret wish: “I want to tell my story.”
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