A group of Canadian authors is calling for charges to be dropped against a trio of protesters who interrupted the 2023 Giller Prize gala. Protesters took to the stage at the Nov. 13 event to ... Read More »
November 22, 2023
Debut novelist Kai Thomas, debut short story writer Anuja Varghese, and acclaimed writer and professor Christina Sharpe are among the winners of the 2023 Writers' Trust Awards. The winners of the annual awards were announced ... Read More »
November 21, 2023
Mélanie Ritchot is joining Figure 1 Publishing as sales and marketing coordinator. Ritchot will provide sales and marketing support to promote Figure 1 titles, authors, and Figure 1 Publishing as a whole, with a focus on ... Read More »
November 21, 2023
Orca Book Publishers’s Sarah Howden has acquired North American, English-language rights to Rachel Schwartz Fagan’s The Water You’re Swimming In. The debut middle-grade novel is described as a coming-of-age story about a 12-year-old competitive swimmer ... Read More »
November 20, 2023
John Vaillant has won the £50,000 2023 Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-fiction for his book Fire Weather. The annual prize, formerly known as the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-fiction, has been awarded since 1998 and ... Read More »
November 20, 2023
Cormorant Books publisher Marc Côté has acquired world rights to Melodie Campbell’s The Silent Film Star Murders and The Pharaoh’s Curse Murders. The novels are described as next two books in the Merry Widow Murders series, ... Read More »
November 16, 2023
A group of about 15 publishing staff and booksellers at Montreal press and bookstore Drawn & Quarterly filed to unionize under the The Fédération du commerce (FC-CSN) of the Confédération des syndicats nationaux (CSN) earlier ... Read More »
November 15, 2023
Sutherland House Books publisher Kenneth Whyte is co-launching Sutherland House Experts, a new co-publishing press, with author, educator, and entrepreneur Neil Seeman, who is CEO of the new venture. Sutherland House Experts will operate on ... Read More »
November 15, 2023
A new training program aims to reclaim the Indigenous narrative of Atlantic Canada and empower Indigenous youth in the region to tell their own stories. Bridge to Publishing grew out of the work of Digitally ... Read More »
November 15, 2023
Montreal-born novelist Sarah Bernstein has won the $100,000 Scotiabank Giller Prize for her novel Study for Obedience. The announcement was made at the award's 30th gala in Toronto on November 8, though Bernstein was not ... Read More »
November 14, 2023
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