Winnipeg’s Canadian Mennonite University (CMU) is preparing to launch a new writing school. Novelist and non-fiction writer Rudy Wiebe and poet Sarah Klassen will begin teaching the first students in the annual week-long intensive program ... Read More »

Books for Business founder and president Jane Cooney will be off to Paris for a year starting Jan. 1. “I have been working for 42 years without a break, and so I decided I would ... Read More »

Immigration red tape has scuttled a planned management transfer at Playwrights Canada Press. Last spring, the Toronto-based drama press announced that German editor Christian Horn would replace longtime publisher Angela Rebeiro. Horn has an interest ... Read More »

Earlier this week, Indigo announced a new partnership with the U.S.-based iUniverse, a publishing house that bills itself as America’s “leader in supported self-publishing.” Under the deal, Indigo will not only carry books by several ... Read More »

Ben McNally, a prominent figure among independent booksellers and on the Canadian literary scene in general, will be resigning as the general manager of the Toronto location of the Nicholas Hoare bookstore. McNally’s decision, which ... Read More »