by Sue Carter

Halifax’s inaugural AfterWords Literary Festival announces lineup

AfterWords Literary Festival, the newest addition to CanLit's fall lineup, has released the program for its inaugural edition. The Halifax event runs from Oct. 2–6 in venues across the city. The lineup includes Caroline Adderson, Mona Awad, Cary ... Read More »

August 7, 2019

Distribution change: Fitzhenry & Whiteside

By Sue Carter

Fitzhenry & Whiteside are now distributing Rabbit Publishers' adventures of Harry Moon and Honey Moon. Fitzhenry & Whiteside ... Read More »

August 2, 2019

Libraries “denounce” Macmillan’s new ebook-lending embargo

By Sue Carter

In a policy change that has upset libraries across North America, Macmillan Publishers will start imposing a two-month embargo on library-purchased ebooks across all its imprints, effective Nov. 1. Last year in a pilot project, Macmillan ... Read More »

July 30, 2019

LinkedIn’s SlideShare platform hosts links to a hotbed of pirated ebooks

By Sue Carter

It turns out you can find more than free career advice or a better understanding of artificial intelligence on LinkedIn's SlideShare platform. The knowledge-sharing site, which encourages its users to upload presentations, images, or documents on ... Read More »

July 29, 2019

Daily Deals: two titles for UTP’s New Jewish Press

By Sue Carter

The New Jewish Press, a new imprint of University of Toronto Press, has acquired world rights to The Conflict Over the Conflict, by Kenneth S. Stern, director of the newly created Center for Hate Studies ... Read More »

July 26, 2019

TPL’s Vickery Bowles named Urban Libraries Council chair

By Sue Carter

Toronto Public Library city librarian Vickery Bowles has been appointed executive board chair of the Urban Libraries Council for 2019–2020. The Washington, DC–based advocacy organization represents more than 150 major library systems across North America. In ... Read More »

July 26, 2019

Fall preview 2019: Memoirs and biographies, women’s words, and Indigenous issues

By Sue Carter

MEMOIRS AND BIOGRAPHY Rebent Sinner Ivan Coyote Arsenal Pulp Press, Oct. Ivan Coyote once again defies labels with their 11th book published by Arsenal Pulp. In this essay collection, the prolific storyteller takes on the ... Read More »

July 25, 2019

Margaret Atwood’s Handmaid’s Tale sequel longlisted for Booker, alongside Biblioasis’s Ducks, Newburyport

By Sue Carter

Margaret Atwood's forthcoming novel, The Testaments, has been longlisted for the £50,000 Booker Prize, though readers around the world will have to wait patiently until Sept. 10 to find out what happens to Gilead. In a statement about the ... Read More »

July 24, 2019

Lee Maracle, Hoa Nguyen nominated for “American Nobel,” the Neustadt International Prize

By Sue Carter

Canadian writers Lee Maracle and Hoa Nguyen have been nominated for the prestigious Neustadt International Prize for Literature, dubbed the "American Nobel." The $50,000 award, administered by World Literature Today and the University of Oklahoma, is presented ... Read More »

July 23, 2019

Daily Deals: Orca picks up new middle-grade book by Jen Sookfong Lee; film rights for Timothy Taylor’s Stanley Park

By Sue Carter

Orca Book Publishers associate publisher Ruth Linka has acquired Jen Sookfong Lee's A Place to Call Home, a new middle-grade non-fiction project on the experiences of immigrant and refugee children coming to Canada. Publication is expected in October ... Read More »

July 23, 2019

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Halifax’s inaugural AfterWords Literary Festival announces lineup

Distribution change: Fitzhenry & Whiteside

Libraries “denounce” Macmillan’s new ebook-lending embargo

LinkedIn’s SlideShare platform hosts links to a hotbed of pirated ebooks

Daily Deals: two titles for UTP’s New Jewish Press

TPL’s Vickery Bowles named Urban Libraries Council chair

Fall preview 2019: Memoirs and biographies, women’s words, and Indigenous issues

Margaret Atwood’s Handmaid’s Tale sequel longlisted for Booker, alongside Biblioasis’s Ducks, Newburyport

Lee Maracle, Hoa Nguyen nominated for “American Nobel,” the Neustadt International Prize

Daily Deals: Orca picks up new middle-grade book by Jen Sookfong Lee; film rights for Timothy Taylor’s Stanley Park

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