by Becky Robertson

Quebec Writers‘ Federation names literary award winners

The Quebec Writers’ Federation annual literary awards – recognizing the previous year’s best English-language work from Quebec authors – were awarded at a ceremony in Montreal on Nov. 18. The awards offer $10,000 in prize money ... Read More »

November 19, 2015 | Filed under: Awards

Book Links: Steven Galloway suspended from UBC; Ta-Nehisi Coates among National Book Award winners

By Becky Robertson

Steven Galloway, author and UBC creative writing program chair, suspended following undefined “serious allegations.” (The Globe and Mail) Ta-Nehisi Coates and Adam Johnson among National Book Award winners. (The New York Times) Microsoft commissions sci-fi ... Read More »

November 19, 2015 | Filed under: Book links

Q&A: Rupi Kaur on her debut collection, milk and honey

By Becky Robertson

Rupi Kaur, the 23-year-old Brampton, Ontario–based writer, has had a wildly successful year, ratcheting up more than 280,000 Instagram followers, along with public endorsements by such celebrities as Martha Stewart and Mark Ruffalo. Kaur was ... Read More »

November 18, 2015 | Filed under: Authors, Book news, Digital publishing and technology

Oxford University Press Canada partners with Canadian Manda Group

By Becky Robertson

Effective Jan. 1, 2016, Canadian Manda Group will serve as sales representative for all Oxford University Press trade frontlist and backlist titles to area retailers and wholesalers. OUP Canada will handle distribution directly for all ... Read More »

November 18, 2015

Greystone Books acquires sexual abuse memoir by Greg Gilhooly

By Becky Robertson

Rob Sanders, publisher of Greystone Books, has acquired world rights to Toronto lawyer Greg Gilhooly’s forthcoming book about abuse he experienced at the hands of sexual offender and hockey coach Graham James in the late ... Read More »

November 18, 2015

Personnel changes at ECW Press

By Becky Robertson

Former freelance copy editor Emily Ferko has joined ECW Press as operations co-ordinator. Former marketing and publicity ... Read More »

November 18, 2015

Two new deals from Westwood Creative Artists

By Becky Robertson

Martha Kanya-Forstner, editor-in-chief of Doubleday Canada/Penguin Random House Canada, has acquired Canadian English-language rights to The Ghost in the House, children's author and playwright Sara O’Leary’s debut novel about a wife who returns from the ... Read More »

November 18, 2015

Wayde Compton honoured with City of Vancouver Book Award

By Becky Robertson

B.C. poet Wayde Compton has been named the winner of this year’s City of Vancouver Book Award for his debut short-story collection, The Outer Harbour (Arsenal Pulp Press). The award, part of the Mayor’s Arts ... Read More »

November 18, 2015 | Filed under: Awards

Book Links: Oxford’s word of the year ¯\_(ツ)_/¯; Instagram is worth a thousand words; Dickens’s made-up library

By Becky Robertson

It’s a :-< day for language as Oxford names the laugh-cry emoji its word of 2015. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ (Melville House) NYPL acquires New York Review of Books archives, including manuscripts from Noam Chomsky, Susan Sontag. (The ... Read More »

November 18, 2015 | Filed under: Book links

Book Links: Readers confuse titles about girls on trains; why booklovers may love the new Fallout video game

By Becky Robertson

Sales spike for A.J. Waines' Girl on A Train as readers mistake it for Paula Hawkins' The Girl on the Train. (The Wall Street Journal) Video game Fallout 4 gives nod to booklovers with rewards for ... Read More »

November 17, 2015 | Filed under: Book links

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Quebec Writers‘ Federation names literary award winners

Book Links: Steven Galloway suspended from UBC; Ta-Nehisi Coates among National Book Award winners

Oxford University Press Canada partners with Canadian Manda Group

Greystone Books acquires sexual abuse memoir by Greg Gilhooly

Personnel changes at ECW Press

Two new deals from Westwood Creative Artists

Wayde Compton honoured with City of Vancouver Book Award

Book Links: Oxford’s word of the year ¯\_(ツ)_/¯; Instagram is worth a thousand words; Dickens’s made-up library

Book Links: Readers confuse titles about girls on trains; why booklovers may love the new Fallout video game

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