Nominees for the 2005 Schwartz awards were announced on April 27. The two awards – one for a children’s picture book and one for a young adult or middle reader book – recognize Canadian children’s ... Read More »
April 27, 2005
Ingrid Paulson has joined as art director, to take over when Peter Maher departs in June. Paulson has worked as a book designer at McClelland & Stewart and as creative director at Raincoast Books. She ... Read More »
April 27, 2005 | Filed under: Industry news
Miriam Toews added another two awards to her list this week when winners were announced in Winnipeg for Brave New Words: the Manitoba Writing and Publishing Awards, co-produced by the Manitoba Writers' Guild and the ... Read More »
April 25, 2005
Only 18 months after partnering up, Toronto's Transatlantic Literary Agency and the Humber School for Writers Literary Agency have announced that they’re parting ways, each going solo once again.TLA president Don Sedgwick describes the split ... Read More »
April 25, 2005
In co-operation with the En’owkin Centre and the Aboriginal Arts Program of the Banff Centre, the Canada Council for the Arts has launched the Aboriginal Emerging Writers Program, an annual two-week course designed to nurture ... Read More »
April 22, 2005
For the second year running, writers and publishers will go head-to-head in a hockey game to benefit PEN Canada.The second annual Great Literary Faceoff takes place on April 30 at 2 p.m. at St. Michael’s ... Read More »
April 22, 2005
With the financial assistance of the Department of Canadian Heritage, the Canada Council for the Arts will double their annual funding for the Translation Grants Program in 2005-2006, bringing total monies available to a tidy ... Read More »
April 21, 2005
The Canadian Booksellers Association has announced a new one-day promotional campaign called Independents' Day, to take place April 26. Susan Dayus, the executive director of the CBA, says the nationwide event will consist of independent ... Read More »
April 21, 2005
Incoming Key Porter Books publisher Jordan Fenn intends to grow the firm’s fiction list under his watch, which begins Monday when he officially replaces Key Porter’s founding publisher Anna Porter.The boost in Key Porter’s fiction ... Read More »
April 21, 2005
Books by Jane Jacobs, Patrick Lane, Harry Thurston, and Ronald Wright are the final contenders for the first British Columbia Award for Canadian Non-Fiction. The winner will be announced at a luncheon May 30 in ... Read More »
April 21, 2005
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