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Awards: George Fetherling wins Mayor’s Arts Award

Novelist and poet George Fetherling has been named winner of a Mayor’s Arts Award for the literary arts. Previous recipients of the $2,500 prize, sponsored by the City of Vancouver and the Alliance for Arts ... Read More »

September 3, 2013

Deals: S&S acquires first novel; Coteau acquires five-title fantasy series; and more

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Coteau Books' managing editor Nik Burton has acquired The Shards of Excalibur, a five-book fantasy series from Edward Willett. Set in Regina, the series will follow two teenagers through an Arthurian adventure as they attempt to recover the ... Read More »

August 29, 2013

Deals: Penguin Canada to publish new Ronald Wright novel, and more

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Penguin Canada president and publisher Nicole Winstanley has acquired No Other World Than This, a historical novel by Ronald Wright (A Short History of Progress). The book, which will be published under the company’s Hamish ... Read More »

August 27, 2013

Penguin Random House Canada sponsors new non-fiction writing course at UBC

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Penguin Random House Canada has announced a sponsorship deal with the University of British Columbia’s creative writing program that includes a scholarship, the creation of a new non-fiction writing course, and production assistance for a ... Read More »

August 26, 2013

Nova Scotia procurement contract in violation of Copyright Act, says CPC

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Canadian booksellers and publishers are upset about a $347,440 tender awarded to a New York–based distributor, Sussman Sales Company, to supply books to Nova Scotia schools. Last week, the Canadian Publisher’s Council submitted a letter ... Read More »

August 26, 2013

Anansi partners with New Brunswick newspaper to publish e-single about Lisa Moore novel

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House of Anansi Press has found a creative (and legal) way to get around a website paywall with the release of its latest digital single, Red-Handed: Busting the Real Story of Lisa Moore’s Caught. While ... Read More »

August 22, 2013

Riverwood to continue home sales for Usborne

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Despite experiencing a setback with the announcement that Usborne Publishing plans to move trade sales and distribution to HarperCollins Canada, Riverwood Publishers – Usborne’s exclusive Canadian distributor since 1991 – will maintain its relationship with ... Read More »

August 22, 2013

Distribution change: Black Dog Publishing

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Effective immediately, Black Dog Publishing will be distributed by the University of Toronto Press. Perseus ... Read More »

August 21, 2013

Address change: Libros Libertad

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Effective immediately, Libros Libertad Publishing has a new ... Read More »

August 20, 2013

SFU Writer’s Studio grads to open a working space for authors

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If all goes according to plan, Vancouver writers will have a new place to work this fall. Carleigh Baker and Carol Shillibeer – both graduates of Simon Fraser University’s Writer’s Studio – have a five-year ... Read More »

August 19, 2013

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Awards: George Fetherling wins Mayor’s Arts Award

Deals: S&S acquires first novel; Coteau acquires five-title fantasy series; and more

Deals: Penguin Canada to publish new Ronald Wright novel, and more

Penguin Random House Canada sponsors new non-fiction writing course at UBC

Nova Scotia procurement contract in violation of Copyright Act, says CPC

Anansi partners with New Brunswick newspaper to publish e-single about Lisa Moore novel

Riverwood to continue home sales for Usborne

Distribution change: Black Dog Publishing

Address change: Libros Libertad

SFU Writer’s Studio grads to open a working space for authors

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