The Humber College School for Writers is launching a new program for children’s book creators in June. It will be a six-day workshop for authors and illustrators, the aim of which is to turn a ... Read More »
May 5, 2005
Last week in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, on the same night that Halifax's second ever poet laureate, Lorri Neilsen Glenn, received her laurels, the sixth annual Atlantic Book Awards were handed out.The winners are:• Atlantic Poetry ... Read More »
May 5, 2005
Ojibway author Richard Wagamese has just signed a deal with Doubleday Canada publisher Maya Mavjee for his latest novel, Dream Wheels. The book is about a depressed rodeo cowboy whose life becomes entwined with that ... Read More »
May 4, 2005
Anna Cundari, acting rights director at Groundwood Books, has sold Ange Zhang’s Red Land, Yellow River to Omega Publishing in Greece and to Edicoes SM Brasil.Ashton Westwood of Westwood Creative Artists has sold U.S. rights ... Read More »
May 4, 2005
McGraw-Hill Ryerson’s first-quarter financial results for 2005 show a 20% decrease in revenue from the same period last year – but this time, trade sales are not carrying all the blame.The company’s total first-quarter revenue ... Read More »
May 2, 2005
A small publisher came out on top of the fiction heap at this year's BC Book Prizes, as Pauline Holdstock's Beyond Measure (Cormorant Books) took home the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize. All eight winners were ... Read More »
May 2, 2005 | Filed under: Book news
Hushion House has hired publishing veteran Wilf Clarke as a new vice-president of sales and marketing, filling a position left empty since Lynn Ford left the company – and Clarke is also poised to expand ... Read More »
May 2, 2005
Despite rain and chilly wind, the line stretched out the building and down the block all day Saturday and Sunday. Thousands of Quebeckers had come to check out the official opening of the $176-million Grande ... Read More »
May 2, 2005
Montreal’s pioneer all-Canadian bookstore, the Double Hook Book Shop, will be closing at the end of July – not because of financial or other problems but, says owner Judy Mappin, with a sense of having ... Read More »
May 2, 2005
A book on economic policy published by the C.D. Howe Institute think tank has won this year’s Donner Prize, worth $35,000.Two Percent Target: Canadian Monetary Policy Since 1991, by David E.W. Laidler and William B.P. ... Read More »
April 29, 2005
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