by Cassandra Drudi

Taste Canada announces 2024 award shortlists

Taste Canada has announced the 2024 shortlists for its 10 culinary writing awards. The annual awards, now in their 27th year, celebrate Canadian cookbooks with gold and silver winners in five English- and five French-language ... Read More »

June 13, 2024

Personnel change: Simon & Schuster Canada

By Cassandra Drudi

Michael Guy-Haddock is joining Simon & Schuster Canada as vice president of sales as of June 17. Guy-Haddock will be focused on leading sales strategy and will be a key voice in the Canadian publishing ... Read More »

June 12, 2024

Personnel change: CookeMcDermid

By Cassandra Drudi

Sally Harding, one of the four founding partners of CookeMcDermid literary agency, is retiring. Harding, who is originally from Wellington, New Zealand, started the Harding Agency in 2005. It merged with the Cooke Agency in ... Read More »

June 12, 2024

Aimee Wall wins Max Margles Writing Residency

By Cassandra Drudi

Montreal writer and translator Aimee Wall has won the Max Margles Writing Residency. The three-week residency at the Tyrone Guthrie Centre in County Monaghan, Ireland, is facilitated by the Quebec Writers Federation. Wall will head ... Read More »

June 12, 2024

Shop Talk: Beach Reads Bookshop

By Cassandra Drudi

Shop Talk is an occasional feature in which fledgling independent booksellers take Q&Q into their stores and share their reasons for opening and what business has been like so far. Beach Reads Bookshop 230 St ... Read More »

June 12, 2024

Lisa Alward wins 2023 Danuta Gleed Literary Award

By Cassandra Drudi

Lisa Alward has won the $10,000 Danuta Gleed Literary Award. The annual award, administered by the Writers’ Union of Canada, recognizes the best first collection of short fiction published in English by a Canadian author. Alward ... Read More »

June 12, 2024

Rights deal: Cale Plett

By Cassandra Drudi

Delacorte Press’s Alison Romig has acquired world English rights to Cale Plett’s The Saw Mouth in a pre-empt. The YA novel is described as a queer horror set in an atmospheric small town, in a ... Read More »

June 10, 2024

Star books editor moving to opinion team

By Cassandra Drudi

Toronto Star books editor Deborah Dundas has moved from the newspaper's culture team to its opinion team. In announcing the move, the paper said that Dundas will bring her book knowledge and relationships to the ... Read More »

June 10, 2024

Personnel change: HarperCollins Canada

By Cassandra Drudi

Award-winning magazine writer, author, and editor Lauren McKeon has joined HarperCollins Canada as executive editor, non-fiction reporting to editor-in-chief Jennifer Lambert. Drawing on her impressive record for longform narrative stories that engage with readers at Toronto ... Read More »

June 10, 2024

Rights deals: Mary Simon, Robert Rotenberg + one more

By Cassandra Drudi

Simon & Schuster Canada’s Adrienne Kerr has acquired world rights, with Rosemary Shipton editing, to Her Excellency the Right Honourable Governor General Mary Simon’s Ajuinnata: Never Give Up. The autobiography is described as a powerful and ... Read More »

June 6, 2024

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Taste Canada announces 2024 award shortlists

Personnel change: Simon & Schuster Canada

Personnel change: CookeMcDermid

Aimee Wall wins Max Margles Writing Residency

Shop Talk: Beach Reads Bookshop

Lisa Alward wins 2023 Danuta Gleed Literary Award

Rights deal: Cale Plett

Star books editor moving to opinion team

Personnel change: HarperCollins Canada

Rights deals: Mary Simon, Robert Rotenberg + one more

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