by Ryan Porter

Four new voices celebrated at Writers’ Trust Awards: Emerging Writers Edition

Four winners have been announced as part of the Writers’ Trust Awards: Emerging Writers Edition. The event presented four prizes: the RBC Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers in both the short fiction and poetry ... Read More »

October 21, 2020

Tanya Talaga, Jael Richardson among 20 creators producing Canadian Audible Originals

By Ryan Porter

Catherine Hernandez, Tanya Talaga, Jael Richardson, and Andrew Pyper are among the 20 creators Audible.ca has announced as part of an ambitious program of original Canadian audio productions. The first two productions, The Revisionaries featuring ... Read More »

October 15, 2020

Daily Deals: Film and TV rights sold to Eternity Martis memoir; foreign rights sold for Billy-Ray Belcourt memoir

By Ryan Porter

Film/TV rights to Eternity Martis’s They Said This Would Be Fun have been sold at auction to Kerry Appleyard at Temple Street, a division of Boat Rocker Media, by Stephanie Sinclair, formerly of the Transatlantic ... Read More »

October 8, 2020

Mawenzi House’s Nurjehan Aziz named TIFA’s 2020 Ivy Award recipient

By Ryan Porter

Nurjehan Aziz, publisher of Mawenzi House, will receive the Ivy Award on Oct. 26, during the upcoming Toronto International Festival of Authors. The Ivy Award is presented to someone who has made a significant contribution ... Read More »

October 8, 2020

Clayton Gauthier brings the lessons of the land to picture book The Bear’s Medicine

By Ryan Porter

For multi-media artist Clayton Gauthier, kids have the easiest time understanding the lessons found in his picture books, 2016's The Salmon Run and 2019's The Bear's Medicine (both Theytus Books). It’s adults, he's found, who ... Read More »

October 8, 2020

Gil Adamson, Zsuzsi Gartner, and Thomas King listed alongside debut authors on WT Fiction Prize shortlist

By Ryan Porter

Two debut books have been listed alongside three by seasoned Canadian scribes for the 24th Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize. Maria Reva’s debut short-story collection Good Citizens Need Not Fear and Michelle Good’s debut novel Five ... Read More »

October 7, 2020

Giller shortlist names three novels, two short-fiction collections, no graphic novels

By Ryan Porter

Three novels and two short-story collections have been named to the shortlist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize. The winner of the $100,000 prize will be announced Nov. 9 on CBC in a presentation hosted by ... Read More »

October 5, 2020

HarperCollins Canada VP Iris Tupholme on the publisher’s four Giller noms

By Ryan Porter

Iris Tupholme, senior vice-president and executive publisher at HarperCollins Canada, had a good feeling in the suspenseful morning hours before the Scotiabank Giller Prize longlist was announced in early September. With the company’s staff still ... Read More »

October 1, 2020

Sci-fi novelist Cory Doctorow’s “Attack” on Audible

By Ryan Porter

When Attack Surface, the next instalment in Cory Doctorow’s Little Brother speculative-fiction series, launches on Oct. 13, it will be that rare audiobook exclusive: exclusively not available on Amazon’s Audible platform. The Toronto author, now ... Read More »

October 1, 2020

Lorna Crozier, Steven Heighton among Weston Prize finalists

By Ryan Porter

The Writers’ Trust of Canada has announced the five finalists for this year’s Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction. The organization noted in a release that the $60,000 prize is the only one that ... Read More »

September 30, 2020

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Four new voices celebrated at Writers’ Trust Awards: Emerging Writers Edition

Tanya Talaga, Jael Richardson among 20 creators producing Canadian Audible Originals

Daily Deals: Film and TV rights sold to Eternity Martis memoir; foreign rights sold for Billy-Ray Belcourt memoir

Mawenzi House’s Nurjehan Aziz named TIFA’s 2020 Ivy Award recipient

Clayton Gauthier brings the lessons of the land to picture book The Bear’s Medicine

Gil Adamson, Zsuzsi Gartner, and Thomas King listed alongside debut authors on WT Fiction Prize shortlist

Giller shortlist names three novels, two short-fiction collections, no graphic novels

HarperCollins Canada VP Iris Tupholme on the publisher’s four Giller noms

Sci-fi novelist Cory Doctorow’s “Attack” on Audible

Lorna Crozier, Steven Heighton among Weston Prize finalists

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