by Ryan Porter

Laisha Rosnau wins Kobzar Book Award for Ukranian-Canadian writing

Coldstream, B.C., poet and novelist Laisha Rosnau has won the $25,000 Kobzar Book Award for her 2018 collection of poetry Our Familiar Hunger (Nightwood Editions). The Kobzar celebrates a written work about the Ukrainian-Canadian experience. ... Read More »

March 19, 2020

Personnel changes: The Rights Factory

By Ryan Porter

Emmy Nordstrom Higdon (they/them) has joined The Rights Factory as an assistant agent and has started building their own client list, focusing on character-driven #OwnVoices projects. They are a bookseller, a blogger at Books Beyond ... Read More »

March 18, 2020

Daily Deals: Memoir about aftermath of life in a polygamist family in Bountiful, B.C., to Caitlin Press

By Ryan Porter

Caitlin Press publisher Vici Johnstone has acquired world rights to Mary Jayne Blackmore’s memoir Balancing Bountiful: From Polygamy to Feminism. The book, by the daughter of Winston Blackmore, who was charged and convicted of practicing polygamy ... Read More »

March 18, 2020

Publishers host special offers and discounts as Canadians isolate

By Ryan Porter

In a movement that's part promotion and part philanthropy, these small publishers from across Canada are helping people cope with the hours of isolation recommended during the COVID-19 pandemic by sharing special offers on their ... Read More »

March 18, 2020

Distribution change: Ampersand Inc.

By Ryan Porter

Effective immediately, Ampersand Inc. will represent ... Read More »

March 16, 2020

53 authors and illustrators announced as part of Canada’s literary delegation for the Frankfurt Book Fair

By Ryan Porter

Canada FBM2020, the body governing Canada’s role as Guest of Honour at October’s Frankfurt Book Fair, remains committed to the festival despite growing concern around the spread of COVID-19. Without fanfare, on March 13 the organization ... Read More »

March 16, 2020

UPDATED: Schedule changes and event cancellations at independent bookstores across Canada

By Ryan Porter

As Canada's chief public health officer urges Canadians to stay home amid the global COVID-19 pandemic, indie bookstores are altering their hours, offering discounted or free delivery and, in some cases, closing entirely. This is ... Read More »

March 16, 2020

Publishers strategize to connect with book clubs

By Ryan Porter

Reading a book a week is nothing unusual for the members of the Girly Book Club. With more than 100,000 members worldwide, the Toronto-born group is the largest network of book clubs hosting in-person meetings in ... Read More »

March 16, 2020

American “political psychology” book The Light That Failed wins $15,000 Lionel Gelber Prize

By Ryan Porter

Political scientists Stephen Holmes and Ivan Krastev have won the $15,000 Lionel Gelber Prize for their book on the American political mindset The Light That Failed: A Reckoning. The book recounts, according to the jury, ... Read More »

March 12, 2020

Shortlists announced for eight BC and Yukon Book Prizes

By Ryan Porter

Alix Ohlin’s Dual Citizens, Steven Price’s Lampedusa, Julie Flett’s Birdsong, Chantal Gibson's How She Read, and Ivan Coyote’s Rebent Sinner are among the titles shortlisted for the BC and Yukon Book Prizes. The value of ... Read More »

March 12, 2020

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Laisha Rosnau wins Kobzar Book Award for Ukranian-Canadian writing

Personnel changes: The Rights Factory

Daily Deals: Memoir about aftermath of life in a polygamist family in Bountiful, B.C., to Caitlin Press

Publishers host special offers and discounts as Canadians isolate

Distribution change: Ampersand Inc.

53 authors and illustrators announced as part of Canada’s literary delegation for the Frankfurt Book Fair

UPDATED: Schedule changes and event cancellations at independent bookstores across Canada

Publishers strategize to connect with book clubs

American “political psychology” book The Light That Failed wins $15,000 Lionel Gelber Prize

Shortlists announced for eight BC and Yukon Book Prizes

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