by Ryan Porter

Personnel changes: Kids Can Press names Lisa Lyons Johnston as publisher

Kids Can Press president Lisa Lyons Johnston is adding publisher to her title, as part of a management restructure. KCP simultaneously announced several new hires and promotions: Lara Caplan has been hired as associate publisher, ... Read More »

October 4, 2018

Elana Rabinovitch on taking the Giller Prize to London, New York

By Ryan Porter

With a publicity blitz that culminates in an awards-gala broadcast live on CBC TV and a $100,000 grand prize, the Scotiabank Giller Prize is already the stuff CanLit dreams are made on. But Elana Rabinovitch, ... Read More »

October 4, 2018

Joshua Whitehead, Paige Cooper among fresh crop of finalists for Governor General’s Literary Awards

By Ryan Porter

The juries for the Governor General’s Literary Awards clearly haven’t been reading over the shoulders of the season’s other literary prizes. A fresh group of finalists dominate this year's lists, announced Oct. 3. The exclusion ... Read More »

October 3, 2018

Daily Deals: Cormorant to publish short-story collection from Dayle Furlong

By Ryan Porter

Cormorant Books publisher Marc Côte has acquired Canadian rights and film rights to Dayle Furlong’s short-story collection Lake Effect And Other Stories. The collection charts the emotional journeys of characters in the cities bordering the ... Read More »

October 2, 2018

Chris Turner wins National Business Book Award

By Ryan Porter

“Maybe third time’s a charm,” Calgary writer Chris Turner tweeted before the National Business Book Award ceremony in Toronto on Oct. 2. As it turns, out he was right: after being nominated twice before, Turner ... Read More »

October 2, 2018

How Patton Oswalt inspired Hingston & Olsen’s little box of horrors

By Ryan Porter

Writer Michael Hingston and designer Natalie Olsen, of the small Alberta-based publishing house Hingston & Olsen, aren’t big horror readers. So when it came time to select the stories for their uniquely atmospheric 2017 collection ... Read More »

October 1, 2018

Daily Deals: Susin Nielsen picture book to PRHC

By Ryan Porter

Penguin Random House Canada Young Readers publisher Tara Walker has acquired world rights to Governor General Literary Award–winning author Susin Nielsen’s new picture book Princess Puffybottom… and Darryl. The story, illustrated by Olivia Chin Mueller, ... Read More »

September 27, 2018

Cundill History Prize announces shortlist

By Ryan Porter

The Cundill History Prize has announced its shortlist. The prize awards the best in English-language history writing with an emphasis on historical scholarship, originality, literary quality, and broad appeal. The three finalists will be announced ... Read More »

September 26, 2018

Edugyan, Hage among Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction finalists

By Ryan Porter

The finalists have been announced for this year’s Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize. Esi Edugyan’s Washington Black and Rawi Hage’s Beirut Hellfire Society, both of which also appeared on the Giller longlist last week, will ... Read More »

September 26, 2018

Pauline Dakin’s memoir of “fugitive childhood” wins Edna Staebler Award

By Ryan Porter

Journalist, professor, and writer Pauline Dakin has won the Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-fiction for her book Run, Hide, Repeat: A Memoir of a Fugitive Childhood (Viking). Dakin’s non-fiction debut retraces an erratic childhood ... Read More »

September 24, 2018

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Personnel changes: Kids Can Press names Lisa Lyons Johnston as publisher

Elana Rabinovitch on taking the Giller Prize to London, New York

Joshua Whitehead, Paige Cooper among fresh crop of finalists for Governor General’s Literary Awards

Daily Deals: Cormorant to publish short-story collection from Dayle Furlong

Chris Turner wins National Business Book Award

How Patton Oswalt inspired Hingston & Olsen’s little box of horrors

Daily Deals: Susin Nielsen picture book to PRHC

Cundill History Prize announces shortlist

Edugyan, Hage among Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction finalists

Pauline Dakin’s memoir of “fugitive childhood” wins Edna Staebler Award

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