When Ariel Bissett was in high school outside of Kingston, Ontario, she didn’t have anyone to gush to about her obsession with YA fiction. “It wasn’t very cool,” she admits. That was before she typed ... Read More »
January 30, 2020
Vagrant Press managing editor Whitney Moran has acquired world rights to The History of Rain, a new novel by Nova Scotia author Stephens Gerard Malone. The work of historical fiction follows Rain, a veteran of the ... Read More »
January 29, 2020
Writer Stuart Ross, editor of Anvil Press poetry imprint A Feed Dog Book, has announced a new Canadian poetry prize. The Nelson Ball Prize will honour poetry of observation. The inaugural $1,000 prize will recognize ... Read More »
January 29, 2020
Catherine Gerbasi has acquired sole ownership of Portage & Main Press. Co-owner and editorial director Annalee Greenberg has retired. Gerbasi and Greenberg bought the educational publisher together in 2007. Under their partnership they launched HighWater ... Read More »
January 29, 2020
EMAfilms's Anne-Marie Gélinas has acquired film and TV rights to investigative journalist Curt Petrovich's Blamed and Broken (Dundurn). The 2019 non-fiction book investigates the 2007 taser death of Robert Dziekanski at Vancouver International Airport and the decade-long ... Read More »
January 27, 2020
The Vancouver Public Library’s chief librarian Christina de Castell has released a statement affirming the rights of the socially conservative group Gender Identity YVR to host a panel discussion, titled Women’s Places & Spaces: Sports, Prisons, ... Read More »
January 27, 2020
Douglas & McIntyre publisher Anna Comfort O'Keeffe has acquired North American rights to Ceilidh Michelle’s The One. The narrative non-fiction book is an episodic narrative that follows the author’s youthful pilgrimage to an ashram in California ... Read More »
January 23, 2020
Effective immediately, Sasha Bouché has been hired as a full-time editor at Portage & Main. Bouché's academic focus included ... Read More »
January 23, 2020
Orca Book Publishers’ Tanya Trafford has acquired world rights to Joanne Levy’s Tree of Life. The middle-grade novel, described as a “frank exploration of loss,” follows the unique friendship of 12 year-old Evie Walman, who feels ... Read More »
January 21, 2020
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