For the first time since it launched seven years ago, the top three books on Indigo’s Best Books of 2019 list are written by Canadians. The top 50, released Oct. 25, names Cherie Dimaline’s Empire ... Read More »
November 4, 2019
When librarian turned poet and bookseller Kirby (né Jeff Kirby) first rounded the corner at Artscape Youngplace in Toronto and saw the sun-dappled mezzanine that would become the new home of Knife Fork Book, they ... Read More »
November 4, 2019
Effective immediately, Brad Roberts (formerly Kalbfleisch) has returned to Firefly Books as manager special and corporate market sales U.S. and Canada. Roberts has previously managed sales for publishers including Key Porter Books, ECW Press, and HB ... Read More »
November 1, 2019
U.S. publisher Verso Books has acquired world English rights, excluding Canada, to Leslie Kern’s Feminist City: A Field Guide. The mix of memoir, feminist theory, pop culture, and geography was published in Canada Oct. 23 ... Read More »
October 31, 2019
Five first-time winners – Joan Thomas (fiction), Gwen Benaway (poetry), Amanda Parris (drama), Don Gillmor, and Erin Bow (young people’s literature – text) – were among the seven English-language literary talents to receive a Governor ... Read More »
October 29, 2019
In some ways, Women Talking, the eighth book by celebrated Canadian author Miriam Toews, is a natural choice to adapt for the stage. The story takes place in one setting – a barn in a Bolivian ... Read More »
October 28, 2019
One of the things about parenthood that Vancouver’s Wayde Compton looked forward to was sharing his writing with his daughter. When she was around five or six, he eagerly read her his 1999 short story, ... Read More »
October 28, 2019
Deep within Ottawa’s Library and Archives Canada lies hours of interviews with major literary figures both living and dead that have taken place at the Toronto International Festival of Authors. This trove of conversations has ... Read More »
October 25, 2019
House of Anansi Press/Groundwood Books has announced a number of personnel changes: Curtis Samuel, previously of Penguin Random House Canada, has been named publicist for Anansi Samantha Dewaele, formerly a marketing intern at Simon & Schuster, has ... Read More »
October 24, 2019
Figure 1 Publishing’s Christopher Labonte has acquired world rights to Ian Grais, Tom Shepansky, and Chris Staples’s Rethink the Business of Creativity. The business how-to manual will present Canadian creative agency Rethink 55’s best tools ... Read More »
October 24, 2019
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