by Cassandra Drudi

Coach House imprint zaagigin open for submissions

Coach House Books has announced that its new nonfiction imprint for Indigenous authors, zaagigin, is now accepting submissions. zaagigin is an Anishinaabemowin word that describes a sprout coming out of the earth. The advisory board, ... Read More »

June 22, 2022

Personnel changes: Penguin Random House Canada

By Cassandra Drudi

Hala Kamaliddin has joined the Penguin Random House Canada independent sales team in the role of district sales manager, Western Canada. On the performance marketing team, Anaïs Loewen-Young has been promoted to the role of marketing associate, from her previous position ... Read More »

June 22, 2022

Ben McNally Books finds permanent home

By Cassandra Drudi

Toronto indie bookseller Ben McNally Books has found a new permanent home, the store announced this week on Twitter. The bookstore has had a couple of short-term homes since learning in 2019 that they would ... Read More »

June 22, 2022

Brian Thomas Isaac, Selina Boan among 2022 Indigenous Voices Awards winners

By Cassandra Drudi

The winners of the fifth annual Indigenous Voices Awards were announced on June 21, National Indigenous Peoples Day. The awards were launched in 2017 t0 support and nurture the work of Indigenous writers. The amount ... Read More »

June 21, 2022

Ann Shin, Bardia Sinaee among 2022 Trillium Book Award winners

By Cassandra Drudi

The winners of the Trillium Book Awards were announced at an in-person event in Toronto on June 21. The awards, now in their 35th year, recognize excellence in Ontario’s writers in both French and English. ... Read More »

June 21, 2022

Rights Deals: Katie Wicks, Mikaela Lucido + one more

By Cassandra Drudi

W by Wattpad Books’s Deanna McFadden has acquired world rights to Katie Wicks’s Hazel Sings Along and another novel in a two-book pre-empt. The novel is described as following an aspiring singer who enters a ... Read More »

June 20, 2022

Rights Deals: Eric Walters, Max Wyman + two more

By Cassandra Drudi

DCB associate publisher Barry Jowett has acquired world rights to Eric Walters’s Good Boy Timmy, to be illustrated by Eugenie Fernandes. The picture book is described as telling the story of a a dog’s dreams ... Read More »

June 16, 2022

Access Copyright Foundation announces recipients of 2022 Marian Hebb Research Grants

By Cassandra Drudi

Access Copyright Foundation has announced that for the 2022 Marian Hebb Research Grants, 22 creators, publishers, and organizations will receive a total of $100,000 in funding to pursue their projects. The Marian Hebb Research Grant ... Read More »

June 16, 2022

Ruth Ozeki wins 2022 Women’s Prize for Fiction

By Cassandra Drudi

Canadian-American novelist Ruth Ozeki has won the 2022 Women's Prize for Fiction. The £30,000 prize is awarded annually to the best novel written by a woman in English. Ozeki won this year's prize for her ... Read More »

June 16, 2022

Tolu Oloruntoba, Douglas Kearney named 2022 Griffin Poetry Prize winners

By Cassandra Drudi

Canadian poet Tolu Oloruntoba and American poet Douglas Kearney are the winners of the 2022 Griffin Poetry Prize. Oloruntoba won the $65,000 Canadian prize for The Junta of Happenstance (Anstruther Books/Palimpsest Press). In their citation, ... Read More »

June 15, 2022

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Coach House imprint zaagigin open for submissions

Personnel changes: Penguin Random House Canada

Ben McNally Books finds permanent home

Brian Thomas Isaac, Selina Boan among 2022 Indigenous Voices Awards winners

Ann Shin, Bardia Sinaee among 2022 Trillium Book Award winners

Rights Deals: Katie Wicks, Mikaela Lucido + one more

Rights Deals: Eric Walters, Max Wyman + two more

Access Copyright Foundation announces recipients of 2022 Marian Hebb Research Grants

Ruth Ozeki wins 2022 Women’s Prize for Fiction

Tolu Oloruntoba, Douglas Kearney named 2022 Griffin Poetry Prize winners

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