Quill and Quire

by Q&Q Staff

The Writers’ Trust of Canada

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The interim executive director of The Writers' Trust of Canada, Don Oravec, has been officially promoted to executive director. According to Writers' Trust executive assistant Kyle Greenwood, the board hired an outside firm to conduct ... Read More »

February 23, 2006

Alberta writer wins short prose contest

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Eleanor Verbicky-Todd has won the 2005 edition of The Writers' Union of Canada's Short Prose Competition for Developing Writers. The Edmonton-born, Calgary-based researcher won for a piece entitled "What My Mother Wanted." The competition, which ... Read More »

February 23, 2006

Up in flames

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Knopf Canada vice-president and publisher Diane Martin has picked up rights to a new novel by Gail Anderson-Dargatz, author of The Cure for Death by Lightning. The yet-to-be-titled tome is set in rural B.C. during ... Read More »

February 22, 2006

Master of disaster

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Penguin Canada editorial director Andrea Crozier has solicited a new work of non-fiction from Marq de Villiers. A Brief History of Natural Calamities will attempt to make sense of all manner of natural calamities and ... Read More »

February 22, 2006

Foreign front: Feb. 22, 2006

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Agent Jackie Kaiser of Westwood Creative Artists has sold U.S. rights to Terry Glavin’s Waiting for the Macaws to Thomas Dunne Books. Marilyn Biderman, director of subsidiary rights and contracts at McClelland & Stewart, has ... Read More »

February 22, 2006 | Filed under: Book news

Seth up for Shuster

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The nominations for the 2006 Joe Shuster Awards, which honour Canadian comic artists, were announced recently, and a few book-format nominees made the cut. Seth has been nominated in the Outstanding Canadian Comic Book Cartoonist ... Read More »

February 21, 2006

ReLit jurors announced

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The jurors for this year's ReLit Awards have been announced. The prizes, founded by author Kenneth J. Harvey, are awarded annually for the best novel, short fiction collection, and poetry collection published by a Canadian-owned ... Read More »

February 21, 2006

TLA is going Dutch

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The Transatlantic Literary Agency has just announced the creation of a new permanent office in Amsterdam. Samantha Haywood, who has been selling mainly foreign rights for TLA for the past couple years, will be taking ... Read More »

February 20, 2006

Toronto book bash raises $100,000

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Last Thursday night, the Liberty Grand Entertainment Complex at Toronto’s Exhibition Place played host to the first annual Book Lover’s Ball, the centrepiece in a month-long citywide campaign for the Toronto Public Library called Keep ... Read More »

February 20, 2006