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Canada Council increase getting closer

The Canada Council has unveiled a little more information about how its funding boost of $31-million, announced last year, will be dispersed to various programs. But it’s still not clear exactly how much of the ... Read More »

March 5, 2008

Small B.C. press reinvents itself

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A small Salt Spring Island press is looking to broaden its focus – and its audience. After 18 years of running (m)Other Tongue Press, specializing in limited-edition poetry titles with letterpress printing and handsewn covers, ... Read More »

March 5, 2008 | Filed under: Book links

PLR gets funding boost

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The Public Lending Right Commission, which compensates authors for use of their books in libraries, got a slight boost this week. Beginning this coming year, the program will have another $700,000 at its disposal, pushing ... Read More »

March 5, 2008

Anna Porter joins Canada Council board

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There’s a new publishing-friendly voice on the board of the Canada Council for the Arts: Anna Porter will join next month. Porter retired from publishing three years ago, after selling her firm Key Porter Books ... Read More »

March 5, 2008

Stein and Lang win Shaughnessy Cohen Prize

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Janice Gross Stein and Eugene Lang have won the The Writers’ Trust of Canada's Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing for their book The Unexpected War: Canada in Kandahar, published by Viking Canada. The $15,000 ... Read More »

March 4, 2008

Whitecap titles shortlisted for international cookbook awards

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Four titles from Whitecap Books have been shortlisted in four different categories for the 2007 Gourmand World Cookbook Awards. Dominique and Cindy Duby's Wild Sweets Chocolate has been nominated for Best Chocolate Book, David Adjey's ... Read More »

March 4, 2008

LitDistCo

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Rachael Pleet is the new general manager of LitDistCo, the ... Read More »

March 4, 2008

The Banff Centre

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The Saskatoon-based author, poet, and arts journalist Steven Ross Smith has been appointed director of literary arts at The Banff Centre. As director, Smith will oversee the Centre’s writing residency programs, independent residencies for poets, ... Read More »

March 4, 2008

Deals: February 27, 2008

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M.R. Donnelly has sold Canadian rights to her debut novel Great Village to Cormorant Books publisher Marc Côté. Set along Nova Scotia’s Fundy shore, it is the story of a retired teacher who is caught ... Read More »

March 4, 2008 | Filed under: Book news

Pennac wins Blue Metropolis Literary Grand Prix

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French author Daniel Pennac has won this year’s Blue Metropolis Literary Grand Prix, a $10,000 award that will be handed out during Montreal’s Blue Metropolis International Literary Festival, which takes place from April 30 to ... Read More »

March 4, 2008

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Canada Council increase getting closer

Small B.C. press reinvents itself

PLR gets funding boost

Anna Porter joins Canada Council board

Stein and Lang win Shaughnessy Cohen Prize

Whitecap titles shortlisted for international cookbook awards

LitDistCo

The Banff Centre

Deals: February 27, 2008

Pennac wins Blue Metropolis Literary Grand Prix

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