Western Canadian publishers will have a shot at a U.S. book design prize for the first time this fall.The American industry group PubWest (Publishers Association of the West) is now accepting Canadian submissions for its ... Read More »

It’s a virtual cross-Canada tour on the shortlist for the Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction, which was announced this week. The four finalists (listed below) range in setting from Toronto’s urban streets to Yukon ... Read More »

Former Stoddart executive Wilf Clarke, who helped launch the new sales agency Georgetown Publications a year ago, has abruptly left the company.Georgetown president Dan Soucie confirmed that Clarke, the vice-president of sales, left the company ... Read More »

The financially struggling Lobster Press has offered to repay its creditors an average of 30 cents on the dollar in a restructuring proposal released earlier this month.The plan would see the 23 creditors owed $750 ... Read More »

Canada’s science fiction distributors and publishers will get a prime staging ground this weekend at the premier event in the field. The World Science Fiction Convention is being held in Toronto for the first time ... Read More »

A Victoria author marooned by the collapse of Stoddart Publishing has, one year later, found a new home with an American house.First-time author Katherine Gibson will publish Lighten Your Load: The Essential Guide to Clutter ... Read More »

Native memoir wins Fleck Award – A memoir ... Read More »

Clark wins again – Joan Clark has won another prize for her latest children’s novel. Clark’s The Word for Home (Penguin Canada) won the Mr. Christie’s Book Award in the young adult category this week. ... Read More »

A small Whitehorse publisher has announced plans to launch a new literary imprint. Lost Moose, which has previously specialized in regional non-fiction, will begin publishing fiction, poetry, and creative non-fiction in fall 2004, under an ... Read More »

A strong Canadian dollar depressed second-quarter results for Torstar-owned Harlequin Enterprises, which reported a zero gain in revenues in the period ending June 30, despite growth in unit sales. Revenues for the year to date ... Read More »