by Cassandra Drudi

Norma Dunning, David A. Robertson and Julie Flett among 2021 GG winners

The Canada Council for the Arts announced the winners of the 2021 Governor General's Literary Awards on Wednesday, November 17. Each winner receives $25,000, with an additional $3,000 awarded to publishers to assist in marketing ... Read More »

November 17, 2021

Rights Deals: Amy Helen Bell, Kevin Chong + one more

By Cassandra Drudi

Nimbus Publishing’s nonfiction editor Angela Mombourquette and managing editor Whitney Moran have acquired world rights to crime historian Amy Helen Bell’s Footprints in the Snow: My Father’s Defense of Two Moncton Cop-Killers. The nonfiction book ... Read More »

November 15, 2021

Rights Deals: Elyse Friedman, Diane Borsato + five more

By Cassandra Drudi

HarperCollins Canada's Patrick Crean and MIRA's Nicole Brebner have acquired world and U.S. rights, respectively, in a pre-emptive two-book deal to Elyse Friedman’s The Opportunist. The novel is described as the story of three adult ... Read More »

November 11, 2021

Personnel change: Canadian Manda Group

By Cassandra Drudi

Stephanie Palumbo has joined the marketing & communications team ... Read More »

November 11, 2021

Distribution change: Albert Whitman & Company

By Cassandra Drudi

Effective as of November 1, 2021, Albert Whitman & Company (previously self-distributed) is distributed in Canada by University ... Read More »

November 11, 2021

Loss of reprints for Orca Book Publishers in cargo ship mishap also highlights publishing’s supply chain issues

By Cassandra Drudi

When containers aboard the MV Zim Kingston, a cargo boat from China, caught fire off the coast of Victoria in late October, Andrew Wooldridge, publisher of Orca Book Publishers, could see the plume of smoke ... Read More »

November 10, 2021

Personnel changes: House of Anansi Press

By Cassandra Drudi

Michelle MacAleese has moved into the role of senior managing editor at House of Anansi. She was most recently a senior editor. Grace Shaw joins in the newly created role of production editor. Jessey Glibbery ... Read More »

November 10, 2021

Omar El Akkad wins $100K Scotiabank Giller Prize for his novel What Strange Paradise

By Cassandra Drudi

Omar El Akkad has won the 2021 Scotiabank Giller Prize for his novel What Strange Paradise (McClelland & Stewart/Penguin Random House Canada). As he accepted the award, a shocked El Akkad said he "didn't think ... Read More »

November 9, 2021

Rights Deals: Rachael Moorthy, Karen Kelloway + two more

By Cassandra Drudi

House of Anansi's Shirarose Wilensky has acquired world rights to Rachael Moorthy's River Meets the Sea. The novel is described as tracing the lives of two spirited young men with elusive connections to water – ... Read More »

November 8, 2021