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Judges for the 2007 Griffin Poetry Prize announced

Griffin Poetry Prize trustees have selected poets John Burnside (Scotland); Charles Simic (USA), who won the International Griffin Poetry Prize in 2005; and Karen Solie (Canada) to be the judges for the 2007 Griffin Poetry ... Read More »

November 16, 2006

Reel Deal

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Agent Anne McDermid has optioned Vincent Lam’s Bloodletting and Miraculous Cures to Toronto-based Shaftesbury ... Read More »

November 15, 2006

International Buy-ins: Nov. 15, 2006

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Penguin Canada editor Diane Turbide has acquired Canadian rights to a title originally published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in the U.S. Israel Lobby, by John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt, is a non-fiction work about ... Read More »

November 15, 2006

Foreign Front: Nov. 15, 2006

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Samantha Haywood of the Transatlantic Literary Agency has sold U.K. rights to Jason Lutes’s Jar of Fools to Faber & Faber; Korean rights to Chester Brown’s The Playboy and Ed the Happy Clown to Sai ... Read More »

November 15, 2006

Canadian wins 2006 Commonwealth Short Story Competition

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Vancouver writer Erin Soros has won the 2006 Commonwealth Short Story Competition for her story "The Moon, the Cat, and the Donkey."The competition, funded by the Commonwealth Foundation and administered by the Commonwealth Broadcasting Association ... Read More »

November 15, 2006

The Vancouver fest

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The 19th annual Vancouver International Writers Festival ran from October 17-22, 2006, bringing almost 100 Canadian and international authors to Lotusland. (Photos by Chris Cameron.) Canadian spoken-word artist Shane Koyczan sees the light. Former Governor-General ... Read More »

November 15, 2006 | Filed under: Events

Tom Andrews leaving Thomas Allen & Son

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Thomas Allen & Son is looking for a new marketing director following the resignation of Tom Andrews.“It’s been on my mind for a bit,” says Andrews of his upcoming departure (his last day will be ... Read More »

November 15, 2006 | Filed under: Book news

Coutts Information Services

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David Lindley, who joined the company last year and set up ... Read More »

November 13, 2006

M&S to publish Davidar’s new novel

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When the head of a major publishing company writes a novel of his own, he faces a dilemma: should he publish with his own company, or an outside firm? Penguin Canada publisher David Davidar came ... Read More »

November 13, 2006

McGraw-Hill Ryerson’s revenues hold, despite quarterly drop in school sales

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A healthy 16.3% increase in professional and trade division sales helped hold McGraw-Hill Ryerson’s third-quarter revenues almost level with 2005 figures, despite a 10.5% drop in school division sales for the period. Revenue for the ... Read More »

November 13, 2006 | Filed under: Book news

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Judges for the 2007 Griffin Poetry Prize announced

Reel Deal

International Buy-ins: Nov. 15, 2006

Foreign Front: Nov. 15, 2006

Canadian wins 2006 Commonwealth Short Story Competition

The Vancouver fest

Tom Andrews leaving Thomas Allen & Son

Coutts Information Services

M&S to publish Davidar’s new novel

McGraw-Hill Ryerson’s revenues hold, despite quarterly drop in school sales

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