Robert Sawyer pulled off a double win – again – on the weekend at the Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Awards, also known as the Auroras. The Thornhill, Ontario, based author took home Best English ... Read More »
February 17, 2004
Striking part-time employees of the University of Toronto bookstore have staged weekly rallies, protested inside the store, and crashed a barbecue for outgoing U of T president Robert Prichard, but they don’t seem to be ... Read More »
February 17, 2004
CDG Books and high-end china shop William Ashley are dishing up a cross promotion to boost sales of Use the Good Dishes: Finding Joy in Everyday Life, an inspirational title by Toronto author Elaine Dembe. ... Read More »
February 17, 2004
A month-long period of due diligence by Key Media to consider purchasing the Canadian Booksellers Association trade show ended yesterday, but Quill & Quire’s parent company remains undecided. Key Media’s president, Bill Duron, says the ... Read More »
February 17, 2004
A new portal designed to put Canada at the forefront of scholarly electronic publishing has been launched through a joint effort by The National Research Council and the University of New Brunswick Electronic Text Centre. ... Read More »
February 17, 2004
Hailing short stories as “little moments of perfection in an imperfect world,” representatives of an Ontario-based microbrewery launched a new prize for Canadian writers this week: The Upper Canada Brewing Company Writers’Craft Award. The inaugural ... Read More »
The writing is on the wall for poet Jeff Bien’s latest collection of poems – the brick wall, that is.Claudio Gaudio, who published America & Other Poems with Quarry Press under his own imprint, Celico, ... Read More »
February 17, 2004
J.K. Rowling’s forthcoming Canadian tour will stop in two cities – Vancouver and Toronto – and may involve an appearance at the International Festival of Authors. Raincoast won’t confirm the details until next week, says ... Read More »
February 17, 2004
In what appears to be a rapidly escalating war of words , Canadian publishers are reacting with incredulity to Chapters’ claims, made in a press release issued Wednesday, that its average payment time is 63.2 ... Read More »
February 17, 2004
A high school in Pennsylvania recently removed Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale from a summer reading list for students because of “age-inappropriate” themes.According to the Philadelphia Inquirer, the book was pulled after the wife of ... Read More »
February 17, 2004
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