by Ryan Porter

AbeBooks backs down from controversial decision after antiquarian booksellers pull stock

Online antiquarian book dealer AbeBooks has reversed a decision to cut ties with sellers in four countries after vendors united in protest. The Victoria-based, Amazon-owned online marketplace abruptly closed the digital storefronts of retailers from ... Read More »

November 8, 2018

Elizabeth Hay, Kathy Page win 2018 Writers’ Trust awards

By Ryan Porter

Kathy Page has won the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize for her historical novel Dear Evelyn (Biblioasis). It is the first time that the Vancouver author has received a major literary prize in her 32-year ... Read More »

November 7, 2018

Vikki VanSickle to Tundra in two-book deal

By Ryan Porter

Tundra Books editor Samantha Swenson has acquired world rights to Vikki VanSickle’s Teddy Bear of the Year, illustrated by Sydney Hanson. The picture book is about a well-loved but ordinary teddy bear who begins to wonder ... Read More »

November 5, 2018

Daily Deals: Harbour Publishing acquires Grant Lawrence sequel Adventures in Solitude II

By Ryan Porter

Harbour Publishing’s Anna Comfort O’Keeffe has acquired world rights to Grant Lawrence’s Adventures in Solitude II. The follow-up to the bestselling memoir Adventures in Solitude will interweave the history of Desolation Sound, B.C., with anecdotes ... Read More »

November 1, 2018

An unmasked meeting with Instagram poet Atticus

By Ryan Porter

Without his mask, the pseudonymous poet Atticus, whose following on Instagram hovers just under a million, has a ruggedly handsome, actor-type look. His teeth have a porcelain glow and are framed by a robust blonde ... Read More »

November 1, 2018

Daily Deals: Kids Can Press acquires Jude Isabella picture book

By Ryan Porter

Kids Can Press’s Yasemin Uça has acquired world rights to Jude Isabella’s Wolves: Ecosystem Engineers. Illustrated by Kim Smith (Home Alone: The Classic Illustrated Storybook), the non-fiction picture book is about the cascading effects the ... Read More »

October 31, 2018

Jack Rabinovitch to be honoured with Toronto Reference Library space

By Ryan Porter

The late Jack Rabinovitch will be honoured with the Toronto Reference Library’s newly announced Jack Rabinovitch Reading Room. The 2,500-square-foot space on the fourth floor will house Rabinovitch’s personal library, which his family donated to ... Read More »

October 31, 2018

Cundill History Prize finalists announced in Toronto

By Ryan Porter

Three finalists have been announced for McGill University’s Cundill History Prize. Each finalist will receive $10,000 (U.S.), with the winner of the $75,000 (U.S.) prize, the largest prize for English non-fiction, to be announced at ... Read More »

October 31, 2018

Sarah Henstra, Darrel J. McLeod win Governor General’s Literary Awards

By Ryan Porter

Toronto author Sarah Henstra has won the Governor General’s Literary Award for fiction for her novel The Red Word (ECW Press). The B.C.–born Ryerson University English professor explores rape culture on campus in her first ... Read More »

October 30, 2018

Daily Deals: World English rights sold to Billy-Ray Belcourt collection

By Ryan Porter

The University of Minnesota Press’s Jason Weidemann has acquired world English rights (excluding Canada) to Billy-Ray Belcourt’s Griffin Poetry Prize–winning poetry collection This Wound Is A World. The deal was arranged by Stephanie Sinclair at ... Read More »

October 29, 2018

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AbeBooks backs down from controversial decision after antiquarian booksellers pull stock

Elizabeth Hay, Kathy Page win 2018 Writers’ Trust awards

Vikki VanSickle to Tundra in two-book deal

Daily Deals: Harbour Publishing acquires Grant Lawrence sequel Adventures in Solitude II

An unmasked meeting with Instagram poet Atticus

Daily Deals: Kids Can Press acquires Jude Isabella picture book

Jack Rabinovitch to be honoured with Toronto Reference Library space

Cundill History Prize finalists announced in Toronto

Sarah Henstra, Darrel J. McLeod win Governor General’s Literary Awards

Daily Deals: World English rights sold to Billy-Ray Belcourt collection

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