Mary Trentadue has joined Page Two Strategies to work on business development and special projects. Trentadue founded Vancouver bookstore ... Read More »
April 3, 2019
Stories of environmental development – and its consequences – dominate the Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing. The $25,000 prize, presented by the Writers’ Trust, celebrates literary non-fiction of relevance to Canadian politics. Three of ... Read More »
April 3, 2019
Cormorant Books has acquired world publishing rights to Rachel Manley’s new novel The Fellowship. The follow-up to her 2017 novel The Black Peacock, which was also published by Cormorant and went on to be shortlisted ... Read More »
April 1, 2019
The League of Canadian Poets has announced three longlists for their 2019 Book Awards. The non-profit organization, which advocates on behalf of Canadian poetry, has announced the contenders for three awards: the Gerald Lampert Memorial ... Read More »
April 1, 2019
The Festival of Literary Diversity, based in Brampton, Ontario, is only in its fourth year, yet founder Jael Richardson is already looking ahead to its next generation of readers and writers. “I think putting all ... Read More »
April 1, 2019
The 2019 Bologna Children’s Book Fair, the world’s leading children’s book market, runs in the Italian city from April 1–4. Here are some of the titles Canadian publishers and agents will be pitching. Annick Press ... Read More »
March 28, 2019
Just days after his 90th birthday, Max Eisen has been named the winner of CBC's annual Canada Reads competition for his Holocaust memoir By Chance Alone (HarperCollins Canada). Eisen’s 2016 book tells his story of being ... Read More »
March 28, 2019
Douglas & McIntyre managing editor Anna Comfort O’Keeffe has acquired North American English-language rights to three novels by Charles Demers (Property Values). Primary Obsessions and Suicidal Thoughts are mysteries featuring Acadian-born psychiatrist Dr. Annick Boudreau. Each ... Read More »
March 26, 2019
Elder Elsie Paul has lived history. Born in 1931, she survived the residential school system, witnessed police harassment of Indigenous peoples, and is one of the last surviving speakers of the Sliammon language. Now her ... Read More »
March 25, 2019
Dundurn Press has announced two new hires. Saba Eitizaz joins as publicity manager. Eitizaz has previously worked as a multimedia journalist and an on-air presenter at the BBC and CBC/Radio-Canada. Dundurn has also hired Alicia Edwards as sales ... Read More »
March 25, 2019
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