by Cassandra Drudi

Cassandra Myers and Lisa Shen named Lillian Allen spoken word prizes

Poets Cassandra Myers (My'z) and Lisa Shen have been named the inaugural winners of the Lillian Allen Prize and the Lillian Allen Emerging Artist Prize. The prizes are worth $2,000 each and are awarded annually ... Read More »

November 6, 2024

Heidi LM Jacobs wins 2024 Ontario Speaker’s Book Award

By Cassandra Drudi

Writer and University of Windsor librarian Heidi LM Jacobs has won the 2024 Ontario Speaker's Book Award. Jacobs, who won for her book 1934: The Chatham Coloured All-Stars’ Barrier-Breaking Year (Biblioasis), was named the winner ... Read More »

November 6, 2024

Rights deal: Karsten Heuer

By Cassandra Drudi

Greystone Books’s Paula Ayer has acquired world rights to conservationist and award-winning author Karsten Heuer’s tentatively titled Buffaloed: Lessons From the Reintroduced Banff Herd. The nonfiction book is described as part popular science and part ... Read More »

November 4, 2024

Yilin Wang wins 2024 John Glassco Translation Prize

By Cassandra Drudi

Yilin Wang has won the 2024 John Glassco Translation Prize. The prize, now in its 40th year, is awarded by the Literary Translators' Association of Canada (LTAC). It is granted annually to a literary translator ... Read More »

November 4, 2024

Personnel changes: Simon & Schuster

By Cassandra Drudi

Adrienne Kerr has been promoted to executive editor. Kerr has worked in the industry for more than 25 years, first on the retail side as a bookseller for Nicholas Hoare, a buyer for HDS Retail, ... Read More »

November 4, 2024

Rights deals: Marc Lewis, Louise Bradford + one more

By Cassandra Drudi

Penguin Canada’s Nick Garrison has acquired world rights to Marc Lewis’s The Voices In Our Heads. The nonfiction book is described as relating case histories and vignettes showing that many clients in psychotherapy, as well ... Read More »

October 31, 2024

Kathleen DuVal wins 2024 Cundill History Prize

By Cassandra Drudi

American historian Kathleen DuVal has won the $75,000 (U.S.) Cundill History Prize for 2024. The announcement was made at an event in Montreal on Oct. 30 by jury chair Rana Mitter. DuVal was named the ... Read More »

October 30, 2024

Frankfurt Book Fair successful for Canadian publishers, agents

By Cassandra Drudi

Four years after the Frankfurt Book Fair pivoted to an online-only event during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, the in-person event is closer to returning to its pre-pandemic size. A strong contingent from ... Read More »

October 30, 2024

Authors launch boycott of Israeli cultural institutions

By Cassandra Drudi

A group of organizations – and more than 1,000 authors from around the world – have launched a boycott of Israeli cultural institutions "that are complicit or have remained silent observers of the overwhelming oppression ... Read More »

October 30, 2024

Agony Editor: How to tell a fellow writer it’s time to move on

By Cassandra Drudi

Dear Agony Editor, A guy in my writing group has been working on a short story for three years. Every time it’s his turn to submit work for the group to critique, it’s the same ... Read More »

October 30, 2024

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Cassandra Myers and Lisa Shen named Lillian Allen spoken word prizes

Heidi LM Jacobs wins 2024 Ontario Speaker’s Book Award

Rights deal: Karsten Heuer

Yilin Wang wins 2024 John Glassco Translation Prize

Personnel changes: Simon & Schuster

Rights deals: Marc Lewis, Louise Bradford + one more

Kathleen DuVal wins 2024 Cundill History Prize

Frankfurt Book Fair successful for Canadian publishers, agents

Authors launch boycott of Israeli cultural institutions

Agony Editor: How to tell a fellow writer it’s time to move on

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