It’s sometimes difficult enough to get a single literary agent on the phone – but several of them around one table? That’s precisely what happened last Thursday night when several of Toronto’s key literary deal-makers ... Read More »

Who will replace Cynthia Good as publisher of Penguin Canada? Speculation over who will fill one of the most high-profile jobs in Canadian publishing has been running rampant since January, when Good announced her departure ... Read More »

It was an emotional night at the Canadian Booksellers Association Libris Awards on Sunday, particularly with regard to two absent winners. The staff of Pages Books on Kensington in Calgary were visibly moved that their ... Read More »

It was mutual appreciation night at the presentation of the Jack Award in Toronto last Friday. The Book Promoters Association of Canada’s annual prize – named for legendary publisher Jack McClelland – went to Brian ... Read More »

The theme was humility at the Griffin Poetry Prize gala in Toronto last night, where Margaret Avison took the Canadian prize and the Irish-born Paul Muldoon was the international winner.“I can’t imagine how they’ve arrived ... Read More »

The Toronto literary agency Livingston Cooke has a new name and address following the departure of one of its principal agents.Livingston Cooke, whose clients include authors Richard B. Wright and Guy Vanderhaeghe, is now The ... Read More »

The joint conference of the American Library Association and the Canadian Library Association will start Thursday in Toronto as planned, but conference officials say that SARS-fears have prompted a wave of cancellations for the six-day ... Read More »

Quebec publishers are trying to wiggle out of paying writers royalties while they grab unlimited control of works, the Union des écrivaines et écrivains québécois (UNEQ) charged last weekend as it launched a campaign to ... Read More »