The longlist for the 2024 Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour has been released. The annual award for literary humour grants a $25,000 prize to the winner and two $5,000 prizes to the runners-up. It ... Read More »
April 30, 2024
Marianne Kelly and Nicole Robert have joined Penguin Random House Canada’s indie sales team as Eastern Canada ... Read More »
April 29, 2024
Crime Writers of Canada has announced the shortlists for its annual writing awards. Established in 1984, the Crime Writers of Canada Awards of Excellence recognize the best in mystery, crime, suspense fiction, and crime nonfiction ... Read More »
April 26, 2024
Independent academic publisher Broadview Press has entered into a 10-year partnership with Trent University. Under the agreement, which takes effect June 1, Trent students will have the opportunity to participate in co-op placements and internships ... Read More »
April 25, 2024
Penguin Canada’s Laura Dosky has acquired world rights to Mark Critch’s novel Breaching and an untitled nonfiction book. The novel is described as telling the story of Frank Hearn who is tasked with holding forty-eight ... Read More »
April 25, 2024
Five writers have been named to the 2023 Danuta Gleed Literary Award shortlist. The annual award, administered by the Writers' Union of Canada, recognizes the best first collection of short fiction published in English by ... Read More »
April 24, 2024
Canadian Independent Bookstore Day (CIBD) will be supported this year with a new online resource that aims to bolster interest in indie bookstores on April 27 – and throughout the year. Indiebookstores.ca was launched by ... Read More »
April 24, 2024
Three poets and three short story writers have been named finalists for the 2024 RBC Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers. The annual awards, given annually since 1994, aim to identify the work of promising ... Read More »
April 24, 2024
Knopf Canada’s Lynn Henry has acquired Canadian English rights to internationally bestselling author Katherine Ashenburg’s Margaret’s New Look. The novel, described as the story of a young fashion curator planning her exhibit of Dior’s groundbreaking ... Read More »
April 22, 2024
Alberta poet and writer Sid Marty has been named the winner of the first ever Al and Eurithe Purdy Poetry Prize. The $10,000 prize, announced last month, honours Canadian poets and poetry, and celebrates the ... Read More »
April 22, 2024
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