The Ontario Media Development Corporation announced a new $1.5-million funding initiative for the province’s book publishers yesterday – but the full details will not be unveiled until later this week.At a well-attended event at the ... Read More »

General Publishing got court approval today for the sale of Irwin Publishing to Nelson Thomson Learning, and an extension of its bankruptcy protection until midnight on Aug. 19. This leaves the company only a few ... Read More »

Clients of General Distribution Services still awaiting the removal of their stock from the GDS warehouse will have to contend with the company’s intention to declare itself bankrupt today.That news was announced in court yesterday, ... Read More »

Ten Canadian poets and fiction writers, including George Elliott Clarke, Anita Rau Badami, and Molly Peacock, will contribute to CBC Radio’s Sept. 11 anniversary programming.“Loss and Legacy: Reflections on September 11” is being billed as ... Read More »

Several small Canadian presses have until next Wednesday to take the Canada Council for the Arts up on an offer for emergency funding.Those who do qualify can hope to get cheques “hopefully within a few ... Read More »

A dozen Canadian authors who currently depend on financial support from the Canadian Writers’ Foundation (CWF) may have their cheques cut back in the coming months, and at least three new applicants for financial support ... Read More »

Toronto-based poet Molly Peacock has a busy month coming up. Her collection Cornucopia: New and Selected Poems will be published on Aug. 31. And she has just completed a new work of poetry commissioned by ... Read More »

Toronto’s Rowland Firing Public Relations will revamp itself this summer as partner Rob Firing leaves for HarperCollins Canada.Firing starts as a new publicist at Harper on Aug. 26. It’s been “an excellent three years” at ... Read More »

The hype over J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire – which was released in trade paper last week – has died down some since the hardcover release in July 2000. Of course, ... Read More »