After just eight months in the role, David Johnston has been let go as executive director of the Professional Writers Association of Canada. PWAC president Tanya Gulliver would not comment on the reasons for Johnston’s ... Read More »

Though all the signs are indicating significantly lower attendance at the Frankfurt Book Fair this year, many of the Canadian publishers heading overseas next week still have packed schedules. HarperCollins Canada president and CEO David ... Read More »

Like every year, the shortlist for the 2009 Scotiabank Giller Prize – unveiled in Toronto on Tuesday – contained a few surprises. Perhaps the biggest shock was the omission of Margaret Atwood’s widely praised The ... Read More »

Earlier this week, the staff of the Vancouver-based Raincoast Books gathered in the company warehouse for an announcement from founder and CEO Allan MacDougall. Rather than let the company hear it from someone else, the ... Read More »

When the Canadian contingent heads off to the Frankfurt Book Fair next week, its numbers will be smaller than usual. Not only will major firms like Random House of Canada and McClelland & Stewart not ... Read More »

Hoping to take advantage of Random House Canada’s recent release of Douglas Coupland’s Generation A, HarperCollins Canada is reissuing two of his prior novels – with radical redesigns – later this month. Microserfs and Girlfriend ... Read More »

Canadian writers and publishers will soon have access to new money for travel, professional development, and works in progress thanks to a new fund being established by Access Copyright, Canada’s copyright licensing agency. The Access ... Read More »

The government of France has added Canada to a translation grant program that aims to make original 20th-century works from France available to foreign readers. Founded by the French Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs ... Read More »