Milet Publishing, formerly distributed by Ten Speed Press/Canbook, is now distributed in Canada by ... Read More »
April 4, 2007
Only seven months after leaving Thomas Allen & Son, David Glover has returned to the company as the new marketing manager. “It wasn’t something planned,” says Glover. “But … to go back to a familiar ... Read More »
April 4, 2007
The League of Canadian Poets released the shortlists for its 2007 Pat Lowther and Gerald Lampert memorial awards. Gerald Lampert Award shortlist:• a broken mirror, fallen leaf by Yvonne Blomer (Ekstasis Editions)• In the Lights ... Read More »
April 3, 2007
The Vancouver-based Alcuin Society announced the winners of their annual awards for excellence in book design in Canada. The 34 winning titles were selected by three judges: book designer and teacher Alan Brownoff (University of ... Read More »
April 3, 2007
House of Anansi Press publisher Lynn Henry has purchased Canadian rights to a book of photography on ... Read More »
April 3, 2007
Samantha Haywood of the Transatlantic Literary Agency has sold Danish rights to Seth’s It’s a Good Life, If You ... Read More »
April 3, 2007 | Filed under: Book news
Photographers from across the country have been contributing to our new Quill & Quire Flickr Pool. Below is just a sampling of recent additions. Poet Don McKay – who was just nominated for the Griffin ... Read More »
April 3, 2007 | Filed under: Events
Ken Babstock’s Airstream Land Yacht, Priscila Uppal’s Ontological Necessities, and Don McKay’s Strike/Slip are the nominees for this year's Griffin Poetry Prize in the $50,000 Canadian category. The Griffin unveiled its Canadian and international shortlists ... Read More »
April 2, 2007
Art, music, literature, and activism will all come together for one unusual event this week. On April 4, author Nancy Huston will read from her 1996 novel The Goldberg Variations, while Waleed Abdulhamid Kush will ... Read More »
April 2, 2007
IBBY (International Board on Books for Young People) Canada president Susan Shipton is still enjoying the afterglow of the March 21 Hot, Hot Cuba fundraiser, which she says raised about $9,000 to help the organization’s ... Read More »
April 2, 2007 | Filed under: Book news
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