by Ryan Porter

Daily Deals: ECW acquires business strategy guide from Winnipeg marketing duo

ECW Press’s Jennifer Smith has acquired world rights to Kiirsten May and Alex Varricchio’s The Proximity Paradox: Creating Space Between Innovation and Execution. The business strategy guide from the founders of Winnipeg marketing agency UpHouse ... Read More »

May 13, 2019

PRHC’s Strange Light imprint launches with emphasis on experimentation

By Ryan Porter

Over seven years, Penguin Random House Canada’s digital magazine Hazlitt has inspired several books at the company’s various imprints. “As a magazine editor that is the best possible thing you can hope for,” says Hazlitt ... Read More »

May 13, 2019

Winners announced for the BC Book Prizes

By Ryan Porter

The winners of the BC Book Prizes were announced on May 11 at a ceremony in Vancouver. Eden Robinson’s supernatural coming-of-age novel Trickster Drift was recognized with the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize. Debut author Lindsay ... Read More »

May 13, 2019

Daily Deals: Wattpad Books acquires its first two Canadian authors

By Ryan Porter

Wattpad Books’s publishing director Deanna McFadden has acquired two titles by Canadian authors, the first Canadian authors to be signed to the company's upcoming Wattpad Books publishing house. McFadden has acquired world rights to Jessica ... Read More »

May 9, 2019

Pencil this in: seven highlights on the TCAF calendar

By Ryan Porter

There are dozen of compelling events on the itinerary for the two-day Toronto Comic Arts Festival (May 11–12). But for those of us without the superpower of speed, that variety means making some hard choices. ... Read More »

May 9, 2019

Seth calls completion of Clyde Fans story a turning point in his career

By Ryan Porter

There was little more than a hand-lettered sign on an abandoned office space when cartoonist Seth first spotted Clyde Fans in downtown Toronto. Inside what remained of the mid-20th-century business hung two portraits that would ... Read More »

May 9, 2019

Canadian Comics Open Library calls for a new order in how graphica is catalogued

By Ryan Porter

Nick Drnaso’s Man Booker Prize finalist Sabrina, Julie Maroh’s lesbian romance Blue Is the Warmest Color, and Alan Moore’s seminal superhero deconstruction Watchmen are among the titles that greet curious browsers at the Canadian Comics ... Read More »

May 9, 2019

Writer Jen Storm and illustrator Natasha Donovan deconstruct their retelling of a First Nations ghost story

By Ryan Porter

Ojibwe graphic novelist Jen Storm (Fire Starters) is fascinated by Windigo tales. First Nations legends describe the Windigo as a spirit consumed by greed, often for human flesh. But the basis of Storm’s new comic, ... Read More »

May 9, 2019

Debut short-fiction celebrated on Danuta Gleed shortlist

By Ryan Porter

The five finalists have been announced for the Danuta Gleed Literary Award. The $10,000 prize, administered by the Writers' Union of Canada, is awarded for the best first collection of short fiction. The finalists were ... Read More »

May 9, 2019

Shortlist announced for Dayne Ogilvie Prize

By Ryan Porter

Joelle Barron, Lindsay Nixon, and Casey Plett have been shortlisted for the 2019 Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBTQ Emerging Writers. The $5,000 prize will be presented by the Writers’ Trust of Canada on June 1 ... Read More »

May 9, 2019

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Daily Deals: ECW acquires business strategy guide from Winnipeg marketing duo

PRHC’s Strange Light imprint launches with emphasis on experimentation

Winners announced for the BC Book Prizes

Daily Deals: Wattpad Books acquires its first two Canadian authors

Pencil this in: seven highlights on the TCAF calendar

Seth calls completion of Clyde Fans story a turning point in his career

Canadian Comics Open Library calls for a new order in how graphica is catalogued

Writer Jen Storm and illustrator Natasha Donovan deconstruct their retelling of a First Nations ghost story

Debut short-fiction celebrated on Danuta Gleed shortlist

Shortlist announced for Dayne Ogilvie Prize

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