The winners of the Atlantic Book Awards were named at a gala event in Halifax on June 5. Along with the annual book awards and the inaugural readers' choice award, the 2024 Atlantic Legacy Award ... Read More »
June 6, 2024
Vancouver-based Irish-Canadian poet, translator, editor, and teacher George McWhirter has won the Griffin Poetry Prize for his English translation of Mexican poet Homero Aridjis's Self-Portrait in the Zone of Silence. The winning book was announced ... Read More »
June 6, 2024
The winners of the 2024 Nova Scotia Book Awards have been announced. Winners were named at an event in Dartmouth on June 3. The winners of the Atlantic Book Awards will be announced at an ... Read More »
June 5, 2024
Lauren Stewart has been named president and CEO of BookNet Canada. Stewart, who has been with BookNet since 2011, takes over from Noah Genner. Stewart served most recently as director of customer relations, conferences, and ... Read More »
June 5, 2024
Faith Paré and Nayani Jensen have been named the winners of the 2024 Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers. The award, given annually by the Writers' Trust of Canada since 1994, aims to identify the ... Read More »
June 3, 2024
McClelland & Stewart’s Stephanie Sinclair has acquired U.S., Canada, and open market rights to two-time Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour winner and national bestselling author Terry Fallis’s The Marionette and an as-yet untitled second book. ... Read More »
June 3, 2024
HarperCollins Canada’s Brad Wilson has acquired world rights to Karl Subban’s Raise Your Roof, to be written with Elle Glencoe. The nonfiction book is described as an inspiring and practical guide to realizing the potential ... Read More »
May 30, 2024
Montreal writer Julie Bouchard has been named a regional winner of the Commonwealth Short Story Prize. Bouchard is the first regional winner from Canada in more than a decade. She was named the regional winner ... Read More »
May 29, 2024
Four years after actively moving into the trade nonfiction space with the launch of its imprint Aevo – and about a year and a half after it announced the union of its books and journals ... Read More »
May 29, 2024
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