by Becky Robertson

Daily Deals: Coach House acquires four new titles; Atwood’s Alias Grace to be adapted for TV and Netflix

Coach House Books's new Exploded Views series editor, Emily M. Keeler, has acquired Toronto writer Julia Cooper's The Last Word, about the failure of eulogy as art. The non-fiction title will appear in spring 2017. ... Read More »

June 21, 2016

Awards: Ryan O’Connor wins J.J. Talman Award

By Becky Robertson

Toronto-based environmental historian Ryan O'Connor has won the 2015 J.J. Talman Award, administered by the Ontario Historical Society, for The First Green Wave: Pollution Probe and the Origins of Environmental Activism in Ontario (UBC Press). ... Read More »

June 20, 2016 | Filed under: Awards

Awards: Rosemary Sullivan named first Canadian to win Plutarch Award for Biography

By Becky Robertson

Toronto-based author Rosemary Sullivan is the first Canadian to win the American Plutarch Award for Biography, for Stalin’s Daughter: The Extraordinary and Tumultuous Life of Svetlana Alliluyeva (HarperCollins Canada). Sullivan was selected from a list ... Read More »

June 20, 2016 | Filed under: Awards

Awards: Heather O’Neill wins 2015 Danuta Gleed Literary Award

By Becky Robertson

Heather O'Neill has been named winner of the $10,000 Writers' Union of Canada's Danuta Gleed Literary Award, for a debut collection of English-language short fiction by a Canadian. The Montreal author was recognized for her ... Read More »

June 20, 2016 | Filed under: Awards

Awards: Lorna Crozier wins big at League of Canadian Poets awards

By Becky Robertson

The League of Canadian Poets named the winners of its annual awards during the group's 50th anniversary celebrations, held at the Canadian Writers' Summit on June 18. For her collection The Wrong Cat (McClelland & ... Read More »

June 20, 2016 | Filed under: Awards

Book Links: Reading makes you sexy; Prince is back—in comic form; why you like the smell of old books

By Becky Robertson

Facebook will "be probably all video" within five years, company exec says. (Quartz) UK dating app says reading makes you more attractive to potential mates. And you look great right now. (Electric Lit) Orlando survivor explains experience ... Read More »

June 20, 2016 | Filed under: Book links

Biblioasis plans relocation and expansion

By Becky Robertson

Indie press Biblioasis will be relocating in the coming months to a new, larger building a few blocks east of its current home at 1520 Wyandotte Street East in Windsor, Ontario. Publisher Dan Wells purchased ... Read More »

June 16, 2016

Personnel Change: Blue Metropolis reorganizes programming team

By Becky Robertson

Montreal's Blue Metropolis International Literary Festival has announced a new slate of staff following the departure of programming director Gregory McCormick, who will participate in the 2017 event by sitting on the jury for the ... Read More »

June 16, 2016

Daily Deals: BookThug acquires creative non-fiction by Marianne Apostolides; two new YA novels for Cormorant kids imprint Dancing Cat Books

By Becky Robertson

BookThug publisher Jay MillAr has acquired rights to Deep Salt Water, a new creative non-fiction title by Toronto author Marianne Apostolides, in an unagented deal. The book, her fourth with the publisher, is due in ... Read More »

June 16, 2016

All Lit Up launches summer book club

By Becky Robertson

All Lit Up, the Canadian book-retail website developed by the Literary Press Group, has launched a summer book club. June Hutton's historical novel Two-Gun & Sun (Caitlin Press) has been selected as July's read, and ... Read More »

June 16, 2016 | Filed under: Book culture

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Daily Deals: Coach House acquires four new titles; Atwood’s Alias Grace to be adapted for TV and Netflix

Awards: Ryan O’Connor wins J.J. Talman Award

Awards: Rosemary Sullivan named first Canadian to win Plutarch Award for Biography

Awards: Heather O’Neill wins 2015 Danuta Gleed Literary Award

Awards: Lorna Crozier wins big at League of Canadian Poets awards

Book Links: Reading makes you sexy; Prince is back—in comic form; why you like the smell of old books

Biblioasis plans relocation and expansion

Personnel Change: Blue Metropolis reorganizes programming team

Daily Deals: BookThug acquires creative non-fiction by Marianne Apostolides; two new YA novels for Cormorant kids imprint Dancing Cat Books

All Lit Up launches summer book club

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