There are lots of changes happening over at ECW Press. In July, the Toronto publisher moved locations, and now it's launched a new logo and website. Q&Q asked David A. Gee, who designed the logo, ... Read More »
September 11, 2015
Kids' authors Robin Stevenson and Sarah Harvey are calling on Canadian writers, illustrators, and publishers to donate to Doctors Without Borders and its efforts to assist Syrian refugees. Stevenson and Harvey were inspired by a ... Read More »
September 9, 2015
Five is a lucky number for a group of emerging authors and poets who will each receive $5,000 through a one-time initiative from the Writers' Trust of Canada. Earlier this year, the Writers' Trust received ... Read More »
September 8, 2015 | Filed under: Awards
Doubleday Canada associate editor Kiara Kent has acquired Vancouver author Zoey Leigh Peterson’s debut novel, Next Year, For Sure, about a couple ... Read More »
September 8, 2015
Dav Pilkey is a superhero for the way he introduced a gay character into his Captain Underpants series (newnownext.com) New Zealand's first banned book in 22 years is a YA novel containing "offensive language and ... Read More »
September 8, 2015 | Filed under: Book links
The University of British Columbia's creative-writing program has hired Vancouver author Raziel Reid as an adjunct professor. Reid – who took home the 2014 Governor General’s Literary Award for children’s literature for his novel When ... Read More »
September 3, 2015
Downtown Montreal kids' bookstore Babar en Ville is shutting down at the end of September, a month before its 10th anniversary. According to a post on the shop's Facebook page, the Westmount location is closing ... Read More »
September 1, 2015 | Filed under: Bookselling, Children's publishing
Random House Canada will continue with plans to publish The Marriott Cell by Mohamed Fahmy, the imprisoned Cairo bureau chief of Al Jazeera English. The book, slated for publication this fall, tells the story of ... Read More »
September 1, 2015
Canadian film director Atom Egoyan has acquired rights to James Grainger's debut novel, Harmless (McClelland & Stewart), with plans to write and direct the adaptation. According to Grainger's agent, Chris Bucci of the McDermid Agency, ... Read More »
August 31, 2015
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