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The Writers’ Trust launches National Summit for Writers’ Associations

The first-ever Writers’ Trust National Summit for Writers’ Associations kicks off today at the Banff Centre. Writers’ Trust executive director Mary Osborne says the three-day summit was inspired by reports that despite their shared goals, ... Read More »

March 17, 2014

Woozles Children’s Bookstore offers customers free home delivery

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Woozles Children’s Bookstore in Halifax launched a free home-delivery service yesterday to help combat sales losses from online shopping. Manager Suzy MacLean dropped off the first order at the Halifax Public Library, which is undergoing ... Read More »

March 13, 2014

Deals: New books by Lynn Crosbie, Kate Pullinger, David Adams Richards, and more

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House of Anansi Press senior fiction editor Janice Zawerbny and publisher Sarah MacLachlan have acquired world rights to Where Did You Sleep Last Night?, a work of “haute fan fiction” by Lynn Crosbie. The book, ... Read More »

March 12, 2014

Address change: The Writers’ Trust of Canada

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Effective immediately, the Writers’ Trust of Canada has a new office, which it shares with The Writers’ Union ... Read More »

March 10, 2014

IFOA adds academic conference to coincide with authors’ festival

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Toronto’s International Festival of Authors has announced a new partnership with Humber College’s School of Liberal Arts and Sciences that will bring an academic conference to the 35th edition of the annual literary festival, which ... Read More »

March 10, 2014

Kobo objects to potentially “devastating” Competition Bureau agreement on agency pricing

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Kobo has filed objections to a Competition Bureau agreement impelling four of the biggest publishers operating in Canada to renegotiate their contracts with ebook retailers. The Feb. 7 consent agreement – the culmination of an ... Read More »

March 6, 2014

The Next Chapter

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Ontario children, it seems, are getting better at reading. The problem is they don’t like doing it. Standardized tests conducted on Grade 3 students by Ontario’s Education Quality and Accountability Office show that literacy rates ... Read More »

March 5, 2014

Deals: Simon & Schuster U.K. acquires two Lori Lansens novels; Dundurn acquires first novel from Suzanne Alyssa Andrew; and more

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Penguin Canada publishing director Diane Turbide has acquired health law and policy expert Timothy Caulfield’s Celebrities Are Wrong About (Almost) Everything, which makes a science-based argument that “our celebrity-centric worldview has contributed to, among other ... Read More »

March 5, 2014

Western light: the birth of NeWest Press

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NeWest Press was born at a party. It was 1977 in Edmonton, and a group of instructors from the University of Alberta’s English department was discussing the lack of attention local writers were receiving outside ... Read More »

March 5, 2014 | Filed under: Awards, Book news

Patrick Crean launches his eponymous imprint

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During his more than 40 years as an editor and publisher, Patrick Crean has got inside the heads of many writers. “He was really intuitive,” says Vancouver author Shaena Lambert, whose new short-story collection, Oh, ... Read More »

March 5, 2014

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The Writers’ Trust launches National Summit for Writers’ Associations

Woozles Children’s Bookstore offers customers free home delivery

Deals: New books by Lynn Crosbie, Kate Pullinger, David Adams Richards, and more

Address change: The Writers’ Trust of Canada

IFOA adds academic conference to coincide with authors’ festival

Kobo objects to potentially “devastating” Competition Bureau agreement on agency pricing

The Next Chapter

Deals: Simon & Schuster U.K. acquires two Lori Lansens novels; Dundurn acquires first novel from Suzanne Alyssa Andrew; and more

Western light: the birth of NeWest Press

Patrick Crean launches his eponymous imprint

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