Search Results by tag: Coach House Books

Coach House suspends poetry program

Coach House Books has announced it is temporarily placing its poetry program "on hiatus." While assuring that projects under commission or slated for publication in 2018 and 2019 will go ahead, the Toronto press also ... Read More »

January 17, 2018 | Filed under: Book news

Coach House Books finds U.S. publicity support with Cursor Marketing Services

By Becky Robertson

Coach House Books is the first Canadian press to sign with Cursor Marketing Services, a new boutique agency offering U.S. marketing and publicity services to a handful of international publishers, Publishers Weekly reports. Cursor, launched this ... Read More »

July 25, 2017 | Filed under: Agency/distribution changes

Coach House promotes new Alexis book with scavenger hunt

By Becky Robertson

Toronto's Coach House Books is promoting the publication of The Hidden Keys, the followup to André Alexis's Scotiabank Giller Prize–winning Fifteen Dogs, with a scavenger hunt. Beginning Aug. 15, one advance reading copy of the title will be ... Read More »

August 15, 2016 | Filed under: Events

Spaces: Coach House Books

By Q&Q Staff

A 19th-century hayloft today acts as the home of Coach House Books, one of Canada’s most important labs of sentence structure In 1890, the brick coach house located on what is now known as bpNichol ... Read More »

January 13, 2016 | Filed under: Book culture

Coach House Books author Andre Alexis takes home the 2015 Scotiabank Giller Prize for Fifteen Dogs

By Steven W. Beattie

If the old saw is true that every dog has its day, it took storied Toronto small press Coach House Books 22 years to see one of its authors ascend the podium to claim the ... Read More »

November 11, 2015 | Filed under: Awards

Andre Alexis wins Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize for Fifteen Dogs

By Sue Carter

André Alexis has won the $25,000 Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize for his novel Fifteen Dogs. The award was presented at an event held last night at Toronto’s Glenn Gould Studio. Published by Coach House ... Read More »

November 4, 2015 | Filed under: Awards

Happy 50th, Coach House Books!

By Sue Carter

On Aug. 27, Coach House Books celebrated 50 years at its annual end-of-summer Wayzgoose shindig (made memorable by touching speeches and a surprise appearance by '80s icon and author Molly Ringwald.) Here's founder Stan Bevington ... Read More »

August 28, 2015 | Filed under: Events

Debut writers Brecken Hancock and Kate Cayley win Trillium Book awards

By Sue Carter

Small presses and debut writers dominated the Ontario Trillium Book awards, which took place Wednesday night at the Toronto Reference Library's Bram and Bluma Appel Salon. Toronto playwright and poet Kate Cayley won the $20,000 ... Read More »

June 17, 2015 | Filed under: Awards

Publishers offering discounts to Calgary flood victims

By Julie Baldassi

As the Calgary Stampede wrapped up this weekend, residents and business owners were still dealing with the aftermath of damage and destruction caused by flooding late June. On June 26, Q&Q reported that Pages on Kensington ... Read More »

July 15, 2013 | Filed under: Book news, Bookselling

Trillium Book Award finalists announced

By Julie Baldassi

The Trillium Book Award shortlists have been released for English- and French-language books, English-language poetry and French-language children's literature. English finalists: Tamara Faith Berger, Maidenhead (Coach House Books) Steven Heighton, The Dead Are More Visible ... Read More »

May 30, 2013 | Filed under: Awards

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