After the Canada Council announced the recipients of its $33-million Supplementary Operating Funds Initiative grant competition last Monday, some publishers had questions about the methodology employed in the decision-making process. One of the chief concerns ... Read More »

Noah Richler has won the $25,000 British Columbia Award for Canadian Non-Fiction for his book This is My Country, What’s Yours?: A Literary Atlas of Canada (McClelland & Stewart). The prize was awarded on Thursday ... Read More »

When launching a first novel, it helps to have famous friends who will go to bat for you, or in Sean Dixon’s case, who will play the banjo for you. Coach House Books is launching ... Read More »

The novella has never been a popular form with North American publishers, but a new Ontario outfit is proposing to use print-on-demand technology specifically for novellas.Eric Sparling, who has worked as an editor and writer ... Read More »