Quill and Quire

by Q&Q Staff

Raincoast cuts reverberate

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Two weeks after Raincoast Books announced company-wide cuts, fallout is being felt on several fronts – by employees now looking for work (in some cases while working on the house’s final publishing list), by authors ... Read More »

January 21, 2008

VIWF writing contest winners

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The Vancouver International Writers Festival has named the winners of its annual poetry and short story contest. The full list of winners appears below. First-place winners receive a $350 cash prize, while second-place winners get ... Read More »

January 21, 2008

Curtis, Lemire win ALA prizes

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Two Canadian titles won American Library Association awards this week. Christopher Paul Curtis’s Elijah of Buxton (Scholastic Canada), a historical novel about a community of runaway slaves in Canada, won the Coretta Scott King Award ... Read More »

January 16, 2008

Deals: January 17, 2008

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International buy-ins:HarperCollins Canada publisher Iris Tupholme has acquired Canadian rights to U.K. author Martin Walker’s Bruno, Chief of Police, a series of crime novels in the style of Alexander McCall Smith, in a three book ... Read More »

January 16, 2008

Canadian makes Gelber shortlist

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Canadian Will Kymlicka, a Queen's University academic, is in the running for this year’s Lionel Gelber Prize with a book about multiculturalism. Kymlicka’s book will face off against four others, covering subjects ranging from poverty ... Read More »

January 15, 2008