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Imperial Oil sponsors kids’ writing contest

A TD Canadian Children’s Book Week writing contest for children has a new backer this year.Imperial Oil is the new sponsor of the seven-year-old contest, organized by the Canadian Children’s Book Centre. Five winners were ... Read More »

January 8, 2004

Social justice guidebook goes self-publishing route for new edition

By Q&Q Staff

The creators of a guidebook on corporate responsibility are self-publishing the book’s third edition.Previous editions of Paul Pellizzari’s Conscious Consumption had been published by Wiley Canada and Broadview Press, and Stoddart Publishing had planned to ... Read More »

January 8, 2004 | Filed under: Book news, Bookselling

Details on Stoddart author funding still to come

By Q&Q Staff

Former Stoddart Publishing authors will have to wait a bit longer for emergency funding announced last month by Canadian Heritage Minister Sheila Copps.Details on the administration of the funding are still being worked out by ... Read More »

January 8, 2004

Sawai, Nikiforuk, Brooks among GG winners

By Q&Q Staff

“I’m happy, I’m blessed, I’m all that stuff,” Gloria Sawai told Inside Report yesterday. And with good reason: the 70-year-old author has won the Governor General’s Literary Award in the fiction category for her debut ... Read More »

January 8, 2004

Six Canuck authors clear first IMPAC hurdle

By Q&Q Staff

Six Canadian novels have made the longlist for the next International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. And it’s a very long list: libraries around the world nominated 125 titles.Among them are Richard B. Wright’s Clara Callan ... Read More »

January 8, 2004

Writers’ Trust fundraiser adds auctions, ups admission price

By Q&Q Staff

The Writers’ Trust of Canada has added a new feature to its annual Great Literary Dinner Party – this year, the Trust will auction visits to authors’ personal libraries. And attendees of this year’s event ... Read More »

January 8, 2004

Penguin moves up pub date for Tobin title

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Penguin Canada has moved up the publication of Brian Tobin’s memoir, All in Good Time, from spring 2003 to Nov. 23, and has scheduled a whirlwind publicity tour for the former Liberal cabinet minister.With the ... Read More »

January 8, 2004

ACP seeks new executive director

By Q&Q Staff

The Association of Canadian Publishers is seeking a new executive director. Monique Smith, who has held the position for nearly three years, will step down on Dec. 31 to re-enter Ontario politics.Smith, a lawyer by ... Read More »

January 8, 2004 | Filed under: Book news

LPG wants refund from Deloitte

By Q&Q Staff

Members of the Literary Press Group say they have overpaid General Distribution Services by tens of thousands of dollars for the return of their books, and are seeking a refund of a portion of the ... Read More »

January 8, 2004

Martel marches on

By Q&Q Staff

Post-Booker buzz for Yann Martel’s Life of Pi continues to grow, with Martel’s Canadian publisher upping its reprint orders and hoping to bring Martel back to Canada for author events.After Martel won the Man Booker ... Read More »

January 8, 2004

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Imperial Oil sponsors kids’ writing contest

Social justice guidebook goes self-publishing route for new edition

Details on Stoddart author funding still to come

Sawai, Nikiforuk, Brooks among GG winners

Six Canuck authors clear first IMPAC hurdle

Writers’ Trust fundraiser adds auctions, ups admission price

Penguin moves up pub date for Tobin title

ACP seeks new executive director

LPG wants refund from Deloitte

Martel marches on

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