Search Results by tag: McClelland & Stewart

M&S to publish posthumous work from Leonard Cohen in 2018

In the final years of his life, Leonard Cohen stopped work on an album he and producer Pat Leonard had been collaborating on. The fabled singer-songwriter had been felled by what he referred to as ... Read More »

October 6, 2017 | Filed under: Authors

Backlist: 68 years ago in Quill & Quire, John McClelland gave Barbara Ann Scott a cookbook

By Conan Tobias

When Barbara Ann Scott became the first Canadian to win Olympic gold in ladies single figure skating, at the 1948 Winter Games in St. Moritz, Switzerland, she became known as Canada's Sweetheart. Along with ... Read More »

April 14, 2016 | Filed under: Book news

Babstock, Brand, and Connolly named to new M&S poetry board

By Emma Renda

McClelland & Stewart announced today that poets Ken Babstock, Dionne Brand, and Kevin Connolly will form the press's inaugural poetry board. The first list published under the board's direction will appear next spring. Babstock, a ... Read More »

March 25, 2014 | Filed under: Industry news

M&S to publish award-winning author Claire Battershill’s debut collection

By Steven W. Beattie

Not yet 30 years old, Claire Battershill has already amassed the kind of résumé many writers would kill for. A Ph.D. in English literature and book history, the native of Dawson Creek, B.C., now teaches ... Read More »

August 23, 2013 | Filed under: Book news

Lisa Moore’s February wins CBC Canada Reads

By Natalie Sequeira

On the 31st anniversary of the Ocean Ranger disaster, Lisa Moore's February (House of Anansi Press) has won this year's CBC Canada Reads. February explores loss and moving on as experienced by Helen O'Mara, whose ... Read More »

February 14, 2013 | Filed under: Events

IFOA’s International Visitors Programme: the schmooze factor

By Cheri Hanson

Less than 24 hours into a September business trip to New York City, three people had already asked Iris Tupholme the same question: how could they land an invitation to the International Visitors (IV) Programme? ... Read More »

October 18, 2012 | Filed under: Book news, Deals, Events

BookNet bestsellers: Canadian fiction (7)

By Sue Carter

Lawrence Hill takes three spots on this week's list for Canadian fiction. For the two weeks ending July 8, 2012: 1. The Cat's Table, Michael Ondaatje (Vintage Canada, $22 pa, 9780307401427) 2. Room, Emma Donoghue ... Read More »

July 16, 2012 | Filed under: Bestsellers

D&M’s Trena White lands fellowships at Frankfurt, IFOA

By Stuart Woods

Earlier this week, Q&Q reported that Trena White, publisher at D&M Publishers, has been named the inaugural Canadian editorial fellow for the I.V. Programme, the annual networking event that runs alongside Toronto's International Festival of ... Read More »

July 5, 2012 | Filed under: Book news, Events

BookNet bestsellers: Canadian fiction (6)

By Katie Gowrie

Tanis Rideout makes her debut on this week's list with her first novel, Above All Things. For the two weeks ending June 24, 2012: 1. The Cat's Table, Michael Ondaatje (Vintage Canada, $22 pa, 9780307401427) ... Read More »

July 3, 2012 | Filed under: Bestsellers

McClelland & Stewart to publish Mavis Gallant’s private journals

By Sue Carter

Thousands of mostly handwritten pages from Mavis Gallant's personal journals will be published by McClelland & Stewart in Canada and Alfred A. Knopf in the U.S., The Globe and Mail reports. Gallant, who turns 90 ... Read More »

June 28, 2012 | Filed under: Authors

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