September 28, 2020
With less than three weeks to go before the Frankfurt Book Fair kicks off, Canada has revealed plans for the virtual program which will represent a truncated version of its guest of honour role. The ... Read More »
September 24, 2020
Hamish Cameron, vice-president of distribution for University of Toronto Press, has been recognized with the 2020 Janice E. Handford Award. The award, which is presented by the Ontario Book Publishers Organization, celebrates a person who ... Read More »
September 24, 2020
As the late Ruth Bader Ginsburg lay in repose at the U.S. Supreme Court, a Canadian chief justice was celebrated for her own history-making work. Beverley McLachlin, the first woman to serve as chief justice ... Read More »
September 23, 2020
Annabel Townsend has felt an excitement surrounding the opening of her new shop The Penny University Bookstore. The indie, housed in a charming mid-century storefront, opened in Regina on Sept. 12, marking the first time ... Read More »
September 17, 2020
This fall, director Michelle Latimer is unveiling adaptations of two perennial Canadian bestsellers, both by Indigenous authors. Trickster brings Eden Robinson’s supernatural coming-of-age series to CBC Television with a six-episode first season. Inconvenient Indian is ... Read More »
September 10, 2020
Winners of the Alberta Publishing Awards were announced on Sept. 10 in a virtual event. The University of Alberta Press received the most honours, winning in the trade non-fiction, scholarly and academic, and book-design categories. ... Read More »
September 10, 2020
Stephanie Sinclair has joined CookeMcDermid in the role of literary agent, the agency announced on Sept. 10. Sinclair has worked for seven years as an agent at Transatlantic Literary Agency, where her client list included ... Read More »
September 10, 2020
Tanya Talaga’s All Our Relations: Finding the Path Forward has been shortlisted for the 2020 British Academy’s £25,000 Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize. The prize, which is worth more than $40,000, celebrates non-fiction that contributes to global ... Read More »
September 9, 2020
The Frankfurt Book Fair has formally cancelled its physical event. The international book summit, which had originally planned to celebrate Canada as its guest of honour in 2020, will take place online only through the ... Read More »
September 8, 2020
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