by Ryan Porter

M. NourbeSe Philip to receive award from PEN America

Celebrated Caribbean-Canadian poet M. NourbeSe Philip has been named the 2020 recipient of the PEN/Nabokov Award for International Literature. The $50,000 (U.S.) prize will be presented as part of the PEN America Literary Awards in ... Read More »

February 13, 2020

Q&A: Jamaican-Canadian poet Lorna Goodison reflects on her career as she prepares to receive prestigious medal from the Queen

By Ryan Porter

Earlier this year, the Jamaican-Canadian poet Lorna Goodison received an email from Simon Armitage, poet laureate of the U.K. Could they speak over the phone? Goodison, a fan of Armitage's, thought that call was prize ... Read More »

February 13, 2020

Distribution change: Fernwood Publishing

By Ryan Porter

Effective immediately, Fernwood Publishing will be distributed in the U.S., ... Read More »

February 11, 2020

Daily Deals: Random House to publish third Jann Arden memoir this fall; audio rights for Zoe Whittall novel to Dreamscape Media

By Ryan Porter

Random House Canada has acquired Jann Arden’s memoir If I Knew Then: Finding Wisdom in Failure and Power in Aging. The book, Arden’s third memoir following the bestselling Falling Backwards and Feeding My Mother: Comfort and ... Read More »

February 11, 2020

Daily Deal: Greystone Kids acquires Robert Heidbreder picture book that celebrates the sky

By Ryan Porter

Greystone Kids has acquired world rights to Robert Heidbreder's Catch the Sky. The picture book, illustrated by Emily Dove, features a collection of 30 short poems about the sky. Publication is scheduled for fall 2020. The author's deal was ... Read More »

February 10, 2020

Daily Deal: Lindsay Zier-Vogel novel to Book*hug

By Ryan Porter

Book*hug has acquired world rights to Lindsay Zier-Vogel's Letters to Amelia. The novel follows Grace, a heartbroken 30something library tech in Toronto who begins to piece her life back together by writing letters to Amelia ... Read More »

February 7, 2020

Daily Deals: Audible acquires non-fiction from Samra Zafar, Jean Teillet

By Ryan Porter

Audible's Jolise Beaton has acquired world English audio rights to two Canadian non-fiction titles. The North-West is Our Mother by Jean Teillet, great-grandniece of Louis Riel, tells the popular history of the Métis nation in Canada ... Read More »

February 6, 2020

Cherie Dimaline’s The Marrow Thieves enters 20th printing with over 100,000 copies sold

By Ryan Porter

There are bestselling authors, and then there is Cherie Dimaline. Her publisher Cormorant Books announced on Feb. 4 that her young-adult novel The Marrow Thieves will enter its 20th printing with more than 100,000 copies ... Read More »

February 6, 2020

Daily Deals: Canadian Olympian Perdita Felicien’s family memoir to Doubleday

By Ryan Porter

Doubleday Canada’s Bhavna Chauhan has acquired English Canadian and U.S. rights to Perdita Felicien’s My Mother’s Daughter. The memoir from the Olympic gold medal-winning hurdler focuses on her relationship with her mother. The deal was ... Read More »

February 3, 2020

Toronto looks to Edinburgh for new TIFA leader

By Ryan Porter

Edinburgh’s loss is Toronto’s gain – the Edinburgh International Book Festival’s associate director Roland Gulliver will become the first non-Canadian director of the Toronto International Festival of Authors. “We spent significant time on a global ... Read More »

February 3, 2020

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M. NourbeSe Philip to receive award from PEN America

Q&A: Jamaican-Canadian poet Lorna Goodison reflects on her career as she prepares to receive prestigious medal from the Queen

Distribution change: Fernwood Publishing

Daily Deals: Random House to publish third Jann Arden memoir this fall; audio rights for Zoe Whittall novel to Dreamscape Media

Daily Deal: Greystone Kids acquires Robert Heidbreder picture book that celebrates the sky

Daily Deal: Lindsay Zier-Vogel novel to Book*hug

Daily Deals: Audible acquires non-fiction from Samra Zafar, Jean Teillet

Cherie Dimaline’s The Marrow Thieves enters 20th printing with over 100,000 copies sold

Daily Deals: Canadian Olympian Perdita Felicien’s family memoir to Doubleday

Toronto looks to Edinburgh for new TIFA leader

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