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Fall Preview 2018: Seven debuts

The Death Scene Artist Andrew Wilmot Buckrider Books/Wolsak & Wynn, Oct. This strange and surrealist tale focuses on a film extra suffering terminal cancer who recounts a tragic love affair with an actor who died ... Read More »

June 20, 2018

Deal Spotlight: Bruce McArthur’s victims will be focus of a book by reporter Justin Ling

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McClelland & Stewart has acquired rights to publish reporter Justin Ling’s authoritative account of alleged serial killer Bruce McArthur and the string of missing men from Toronto’s Gay Village. [Editor’s Note: Bredin is a friend ... Read More »

May 29, 2018

As it looks to expand its market to the trade, University of Toronto Press combines its two publishing divisions

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A retirement, two lease expiries, and long-term strategic planning converged to prompt the merger of the scholarly research and university textbook divisions at one of Canada’s oldest and most storied university presses. The two branches ... Read More »

May 28, 2018

2018 Salary Survey: Adam Pottle on the lack of disabled writers and insufficient industry representation

By Q&Q Staff

A troublesome yet familiar trend arose in the results of Q&Q’s annual salary survey, which provides a glimpse of the Canadian publishing industry and the people working within it: out of 345 total respondents, only ... Read More »

May 17, 2018

Spotlight on Nova Scotia: Fernwood Publishing looks to expand its audience beyond academia

By Q&Q Staff

Since its founding by Errol Sharpe in 1992, Fernwood Publishing has focused on books with social-justice themes, often from a radical perspective, in an effort to challenge mainstream thinking. The bread and butter for the ... Read More »

May 10, 2018

Ann Hansen: “I thought my parole after seven years of a life sentence made me lucky; now I see it as white privilege at work”

By Q&Q Staff

After my arrest in 1983 as one of the urban guerrillas branded by the media as the Squamish Five, I had the chance to personally witness the changes in the prison regime that occurred from ... Read More »

May 9, 2018

Winnie Yeung says collaborating on a young Syrian refugee’s story proved educational for both

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I am not a writer by profession, but literature is my passion. I teach English language arts and ESL in an Edmonton junior high school. Usually, when I ask my students to write about their ... Read More »

May 7, 2018

The University of Guelph honours the Bookshelf’s Barb and Doug Minett

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Almost five decades after founding the Bookshelf – the inimitable and ever-evolving Guelph, Ontario, bookstore/café/cinema/live-music venue – Barb and Doug Minett are being awarded honorary doctor of laws degrees this June by the University of ... Read More »

April 19, 2018

Emma Healey’s diagnosis of a visual deficiency lent her a new perspective on life and poetry

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Emma Healey’s sophomore poetry collection, Stereoblind, is the result of six years spent wrestling with the illusion of simplicity, an illusion that came to light in part as a result of the poet’s own diagnosis ... Read More »

April 12, 2018

Terese Marie Mailhot: how speaking her own story provided a means of transcending negative experiences

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In a public interview recently, a journalist asked me what I meant in the final pages of my memoir, Heart Berries, when I proclaimed myself “untouchable.” A room full of authors gasped audibly at my ... Read More »

April 5, 2018

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Fall Preview 2018: Seven debuts

Deal Spotlight: Bruce McArthur’s victims will be focus of a book by reporter Justin Ling

As it looks to expand its market to the trade, University of Toronto Press combines its two publishing divisions

2018 Salary Survey: Adam Pottle on the lack of disabled writers and insufficient industry representation

Spotlight on Nova Scotia: Fernwood Publishing looks to expand its audience beyond academia

Ann Hansen: “I thought my parole after seven years of a life sentence made me lucky; now I see it as white privilege at work”

Winnie Yeung says collaborating on a young Syrian refugee’s story proved educational for both

The University of Guelph honours the Bookshelf’s Barb and Doug Minett

Emma Healey’s diagnosis of a visual deficiency lent her a new perspective on life and poetry

Terese Marie Mailhot: how speaking her own story provided a means of transcending negative experiences

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