by Cassandra Drudi

New organization launches to promote and advocate for literary festivals in Canada

A new organization launched this week aims to bring together literary festivals across Canada to share knowledge and resources and work together to advocate for the importance of literary festivals. The Canadian Association of Literary ... Read More »

April 27, 2023

Eric Kostiuk Williams’s collection of party posters immortalizes Toronto’s pre-COVID queer nightlife

By Cassandra Drudi

When Eric Kostiuk Williams first moved to Toronto in 2008, he was guided to the city’s wild queer west by provocative posters for alternative parties. Soon the cartoonist, now 32, was drawing these edgy invitations ... Read More »

April 26, 2023

Rawi Hage, Kim Fu among 2022 Danuta Gleed Literary Award finalists

By Cassandra Drudi

The Writers' Union of Canada has announced the five authors shortlisted for the 2022 Danuta Gleed Literary Award. The $10,000 prize recognizes the best first collection of short fiction published in English by a Canadian ... Read More »

April 26, 2023

Personnel changes: Penguin Random House Canada

By Cassandra Drudi

Kimberlee Kemp has been promoted to senior managing editor of McClelland & Stewart, Signal, and Strange Light. Angela Sahi has joined Doubleday ... Read More »

April 26, 2023

Writers’ Trust announces finalists for 2023 Bronwen Wallace Award

By Cassandra Drudi

Three poets and three short fiction writers have been named finalists for the 2023 RBC Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers. The awards, given annually since 1994, aim to identify the work of promising new ... Read More »

April 26, 2023

Dionne Brand wins LA Times Book Award

By Cassandra Drudi

Poet Dionne Brand has been awarded a Los Angeles Times Book Award. The annual awards recognize the literary excellence of writers at all stages of their careers and were awarded on April 21. Brand won ... Read More »

April 24, 2023

Rights Deal: Jordan Abel

By Cassandra Drudi

Yale University Press’s Jennifer Banks has acquired world English rights, excluding Canada, to Jordan Abel’s Empty Spaces. Canadian English and French rights were previously sold to McClelland & Stewart. The deal was arranged by Cody ... Read More »

April 24, 2023

Kids Can Press announces management changes

By Cassandra Drudi

Major changes are underway at Kids Can Press, where a trio of senior leaders are taking on expanded leadership roles and president and publisher Lisa Lyons Johnston will be leaving the company. Lara Caplan, associate ... Read More »

April 24, 2023

Personnel change: Baraka Books

By Cassandra Drudi

Blossom Thom has been appointed fiction editor at Baraka Books. ... Read More »

April 24, 2023

Crime Writers of Canada announces awards shortlists

By Cassandra Drudi

The Crime Writers of Canada has announced the shortlists for their annual Awards of Excellence. The winners will be announced on May 25. Best Crime Novel Linwood Barclay, Take Your Breath Away (William Morrow/HarperCollins) Anthony Bidulka, Going ... Read More »

April 20, 2023

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New organization launches to promote and advocate for literary festivals in Canada

Eric Kostiuk Williams’s collection of party posters immortalizes Toronto’s pre-COVID queer nightlife

Rawi Hage, Kim Fu among 2022 Danuta Gleed Literary Award finalists

Personnel changes: Penguin Random House Canada

Writers’ Trust announces finalists for 2023 Bronwen Wallace Award

Dionne Brand wins LA Times Book Award

Rights Deal: Jordan Abel

Kids Can Press announces management changes

Personnel change: Baraka Books

Crime Writers of Canada announces awards shortlists

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