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Deals: D&M, Scholastic, Dancing Cat, and more

Trena White, acquiring editor for nonfiction at Douglas & McIntyre, has bought North American rights to Allan Levine’s Toronto: A Life and Times. Levine’s history of Toronto will look at four centuries’ of the city’s ... Read More »

July 27, 2011

Charlottetown revives Pen & Inkling Festival with Cultural Capital of Canada funding

By Q&Q Staff

Charlottetown has resurrected its Pen & Inkling Festival for a second year, thanks to money the city received through its designation as a 2011 Cultural Capital of Canada. Through the program, Charlottetown is eligible for ... Read More »

July 27, 2011

Personnel changes: Broadview Press

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Broadview Press reports a number of personnel changes that come into effect immediately. The board of directors has appointed Marjorie Mather as publisher. Based out of the academic publisher’s Calgary office, Mather was previously executive ... Read More »

July 25, 2011

Marina Nemat to teach University of Toronto’s first Farsi creative writing class

By Q&Q Staff

The creative writing program at University of Toronto School of Continuing Studies has been steadily expanding its course offerings to encourage students from all backgrounds to get involved. This fall, a new course, Creative Writing ... Read More »

July 21, 2011

Deals: non-fiction for Greystone, Doubleday, and ECW

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Greystone Books publisher Rob Sanders has acquired world rights to Yukon: A Wilder Place by photographer Fritz Mueller and writer Teresa Earle. The book is a collection of photographs that capture Yukon’s wild landscape. Greystone ... Read More »

July 20, 2011

UofT professor Nick Mount hired as Walrus fiction editor

By Q&Q Staff

John Macfarlane, editor and co-publisher of The Walrus magazine, announced this week that the Toronto-based magazine has hired Nick Mount as its new fiction editor, effective Sept. 1. Mount replaces Jared Bland, who left towalrus-fiction-editor/> ... Read More »

July 19, 2011 | Filed under: Book news

Conference celebrates Lucy Maud Montgomery’s time in Ontario

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From Oct. 13–15, the Lucy Maud Montgomery Society of Ontario will play host to an international conference and celebration marking the centenary of the author’s move to Leaskdale, a hamlet in Durham Region about an ... Read More »

July 18, 2011

Personnel changes: The Walrus

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Effective Sept. 1, The Walrus has appointed Nick Mount as its new fiction editor. Mount is associate chair of the English department at the University of Toronto and an occasional contributor to the magazine. He ... Read More »

July 18, 2011

Personnel change: McClelland & Stewart

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McClelland & Stewart managing editor Elizabeth Kribs has been promoted to executive managing editor effective immediately. Kribs has been with M&S ... Read More »

July 18, 2011

B.C. book fair discussion focuses on sideline merchandise

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The Western Book Reps Association’s British Columbia Booksellers Association summer book fair wrapped up on July 12 in Victoria, and British Columbia Booksellers Association president Barbara Pope is pleased with its success. “It was a ... Read More »

July 14, 2011

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Deals: D&M, Scholastic, Dancing Cat, and more

Charlottetown revives Pen & Inkling Festival with Cultural Capital of Canada funding

Personnel changes: Broadview Press

Marina Nemat to teach University of Toronto’s first Farsi creative writing class

Deals: non-fiction for Greystone, Doubleday, and ECW

UofT professor Nick Mount hired as Walrus fiction editor

Conference celebrates Lucy Maud Montgomery’s time in Ontario

Personnel changes: The Walrus

Personnel change: McClelland & Stewart

B.C. book fair discussion focuses on sideline merchandise

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