by Ryan Porter

Daily Deals: Anansi acquires Michael Melgaard’s short-story collection Coming and Going

House of Anansi Press editor Douglas Richmond has acquired world rights to Michael Melgaard’s debut short-story collection, Coming and Going, for Anansi’s Astoria imprint. The stories take place in a small town on Canada’s West Coast, ... Read More »

June 8, 2018

At 23, Billy-Ray Belcourt becomes youngest winner of the Griffin Poetry Prize

By Ryan Porter

Billy-Ray Belcourt, self-described “writer and academic and hopeless romantic,” won the Griffin Poetry Prize on June 7 for his debut collection, This Wound is a World (Frontenac House). At 23, the 2016 Rhodes Scholar from ... Read More »

June 8, 2018

Personnel change: Word Vancouver hires Chelene Knight as executive director

By Ryan Porter

The Word Vancouver festival has hired Chelene Knight as executive director. Knight is currently the managing editor at Room magazine and programming director of the Vancouver-based feminist literary festival Growing Room. She is also the ... Read More »

June 7, 2018

Aviaq Johnston, Billy-Ray Belcourt top first annual Indigenous Voices Awards

By Ryan Porter

YA author Aviaq Johnston and poet Billy-Ray Belcourt were among the winners of the inaugural Indigenous Voices Awards on May 29 in Regina. The prize, founded as a response to the notorious “Appropriation Prize” that ... Read More »

May 31, 2018

Daily Deals: Chronicle acquires Susan Wenzel’s My Happy Life in an Open Marriage

By Ryan Porter

Chronicle Books editor Rachel Hiles has acquired English-language rights in North America to Winnipeg sex therapist Susan Wenzel’s My Happy Life in an Open Marriage: How I Dealt with Jealousy and You Can, Too. Wenzel and ... Read More »

May 30, 2018

Tanya Talaga, Cherie Dimaline shortlisted for Indigenous Literature Awards

By Ryan Porter

Ten titles have been shortlisted for the Indigenous Literature Awards, with five competing in the Children’s Category and five competing in the YA and Adult Category. The winners will be announced in Toronto at Yonge-Dundas ... Read More »

May 30, 2018

Michael Ondaatje’s The English Patient shortlisted for best-of-the-Bookers 50th anniversary prize

By Ryan Porter

Toronto-based author Michael Ondaatje could be named the best author in the Man Booker Prize’s history. His 1992 novel The English Patient was announced as one of five novels shortlisted for the Golden Man Booker ... Read More »

May 28, 2018

Canadian publishers take wait-and-see approach to inaugural New York Rights Fair

By Ryan Porter

Twelve Canadian publishers will participate in the inaugural New York Rights Fair this week, housed under the banner Canada Stand. The Canadian contingent was organized by Livres Canada Books, a non-profit that supports Canadian publishers’ ... Read More »

May 28, 2018

Peter Robinson’s Sleeping In The Ground wins Arthur Ellis Best Novel Award

By Ryan Porter

Toronto-based crime writer Peter Robinson has won the 2018 Best Novel award for Sleeping in the Ground (McClelland & Stewart) as part of the 2018 Arthur Ellis Awards for Excellence in Canadian Crime Writing. The ... Read More »

May 25, 2018

Personnel changes: House of Anansi Press

By Ryan Porter

House of Anansi Press has named Janie Yoon as its new associate publisher. Yoon has been with House of Anansi for 11 years, and most recently served as editorial director. At Anansi, she has worked ... Read More »

May 25, 2018

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Daily Deals: Anansi acquires Michael Melgaard’s short-story collection Coming and Going

At 23, Billy-Ray Belcourt becomes youngest winner of the Griffin Poetry Prize

Personnel change: Word Vancouver hires Chelene Knight as executive director

Aviaq Johnston, Billy-Ray Belcourt top first annual Indigenous Voices Awards

Daily Deals: Chronicle acquires Susan Wenzel’s My Happy Life in an Open Marriage

Tanya Talaga, Cherie Dimaline shortlisted for Indigenous Literature Awards

Michael Ondaatje’s The English Patient shortlisted for best-of-the-Bookers 50th anniversary prize

Canadian publishers take wait-and-see approach to inaugural New York Rights Fair

Peter Robinson’s Sleeping In The Ground wins Arthur Ellis Best Novel Award

Personnel changes: House of Anansi Press

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