ECW Press senior editor Michael Holmes has acquired a new work of fiction by Montreal writer Jon Paul Fiorentino. Stripmalling: A Novel is being billed by ECW as a “wildly innovative take on the intersection ... Read More »
May 21, 2008
Mississauga writer Karin Macphail Weber has won the Writer's Union of Canada's ninth annual Postcard Story Competition for a story under 250 words, with her piece "The Invasion of the Snotty Badgers." It will be ... Read More »
May 21, 2008
Authors Rosemary Sullivan and Guy Vanderhaeghe are among the five recipients of the 2008 Trudeau Foundation Fellowships. The fellowships are awarded for a three-year period and include an award of $150,000, in addition to a ... Read More »
May 21, 2008
Translator Sheila Fischman has won this year's Molson Prize in the Arts, worth $50,000. Fischman, a Montreal-based literary translator, has translated more than 125 books by such well-known Quebec writers as Gaétan Soucy, Anne Hébert, ... Read More »
May 21, 2008 | Filed under: Book links
Giving away content for free has been slow to catch on in mainstream book publishing, and slower in Canada. But that may be changing. To promote the recent mass market release of Jon Evans’ novel ... Read More »
May 20, 2008
A long-running cable TV show spotlighting books and authors is being cancelled this year. Carolyn Weaver’s Fine Print will run out its current season over the summer, with the final episode set to run onfine-print-cancelled/> ... Read More »
May 20, 2008
ECW Press is taking the unorthodox step of moving its Canadian distribution to a U.S. firm. Effective June 1, Independent Publishers Group – which already handles American distribution for ECW – will now take over ... Read More »
May 20, 2008 | Filed under: Book news
The rise of the Canadian dollar may have rocked the book trade last year, but overall sales somehow still grew. According to sales-tracking agency BookNet Canada, Canadian retailers sold 7% more books in 2007 than ... Read More »
May 20, 2008
In celebration of summer’s first holiday weekend, this week’s bestseller rankings look at the “cooking and entertaining” category. These are the top 20 titles for the two weeks ending May 11, 2008, as tracked by ... Read More »
May 20, 2008
Canadian author Lawrence Hill won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize in the best book category on Sunday for his novel The Book of Negroes. The win was announced in South Africa on Sunday and earned Hill ... Read More »
May 19, 2008
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