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Personnel change: Transatlantic Agency

Chelene Knight has joined the Transatlantic Agency as an associate agent. Knight is developing a list of authors working in fiction and memoir. Knight is the author of the poetry collection Braided Skin and the ... Read More »

June 29, 2020

Indigo expresses disappointment in J.K. Rowling over her views of the transgender community

By Ryan Porter

Indigo Books & Music Inc. posted a statement on Instagram on Friday calling J.K. Rowling’s views on the transgender community “inconsistent with our values.” The Harry Potter author questioned the gender-inclusive phrase “people who menstruate” ... Read More »

June 29, 2020

Distribution change: University of Texas Press and the University of New Mexico Press

By Ryan Porter

Effective July 1, UBC Press will be the exclusive Canadian distributor ... Read More »

June 25, 2020

Zalika Reid-Benta wins $10,000 Danuta Gleed Literary Award

By Ryan Porter

Zalika Reid-Benta has won the Danuta Gleed Literary Award for the best first collection of short fiction, The Writers’ Union of Canada announced on June 24. The Toronto writer won the $10,000 prize for her ... Read More »

June 25, 2020

Stéphane Larue’s The Dishwasher wins $60,000 Amazon First Novel Award

By Ryan Porter

Longueuil, Quebec, novelist Stéphane Larue has won the Amazon First Novel Award for The Dishwasher (Biblioasis/Biblioasis International Translation Series). The novel follows a graphic-design student in early aughts Montreal whose gambling addiction drives him to ... Read More »

June 25, 2020

Daily Deals: Tantor acquires audio rights to A. J. Vrana’s debut dark fantasy

By Ryan Porter

Tantor Media’s Kim Budnick has acquired North American English audio rights to A. J. Vrana’s The Hollow Gods. The forthcoming dark fantasy novel, the first in the Chaos Cycle duology, is set in a small ... Read More »

June 23, 2020

Daily Deals: French rights sold to Téa Mutonji’s Shut Up You’re Pretty

By Ryan Porter

Tête première’s Marie Demers has acquired world French rights to Téa Mutonji’s Shut Up You're Pretty. The debut story collection and first book from the Arsenal Pulp Press imprint VS. Books recently won the Trillium ... Read More »

June 22, 2020

In the wake of layoffs, Banff will offer two literary arts workshops online for fall

By Ryan Porter

Amid budget cuts and layoffs, the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity’s literary arts program will host just two workshops this fall. The three-day courses, dedicated to investigative journalism and to genre fiction, will be ... Read More »

June 22, 2020

Jesse Thistle, Michelle Sylliboy win at third annual Indigenous Voices Awards

By Ryan Porter

Jesse Thistle’s bestselling memoir From the Ashes (Simon & Schuster Canada) was among the winners of the third annual Indigenous Voices Awards. The winners were announced on June 21 – National Indigenous Day – in ... Read More »

June 21, 2020

Daily Deal: Les Films Outsiders option film rights for Lori Lansens’ The Wife’s Tale

By Ryan Porter

Montreal production company Les Films Outsiders has optioned film rights to Lori Lansens’s The Wife’s Tale (Knopf Canada). The 2010 novel follows Mary Gooch – morbidly obese and living in denial – as she pursues ... Read More »

June 18, 2020

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Personnel change: Transatlantic Agency

Indigo expresses disappointment in J.K. Rowling over her views of the transgender community

Distribution change: University of Texas Press and the University of New Mexico Press

Zalika Reid-Benta wins $10,000 Danuta Gleed Literary Award

Stéphane Larue’s The Dishwasher wins $60,000 Amazon First Novel Award

Daily Deals: Tantor acquires audio rights to A. J. Vrana’s debut dark fantasy

Daily Deals: French rights sold to Téa Mutonji’s Shut Up You’re Pretty

In the wake of layoffs, Banff will offer two literary arts workshops online for fall

Jesse Thistle, Michelle Sylliboy win at third annual Indigenous Voices Awards

Daily Deal: Les Films Outsiders option film rights for Lori Lansens’ The Wife’s Tale

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