When Pedlar Press founder Beth Follett was a young woman growing up in 1970s Winnipeg, she wanted to become a poet. But her father – himself a great lover of poetry – dissuaded his daughter. ... Read More »
June 7, 2018
Nimbus Publishing has hired Kate Watson as Atlantic region publicist. Watson was coordinator of the Hackmatack Children’s Choice Book Award for more than 10 years. She has written for many regional and national publications, and ... Read More »
June 7, 2018
Greystone Books has acquired world all-language rights to two books by award-winning writer Carla Funk. Every Little Scrap and Wonder, a memoir reflecting on Funk's upbringing in the small Mennonite settlement of Vanderhoof, is scheduled ... Read More »
June 7, 2018
For Alex Wall, reading is seeing the world from somebody else’s vantage point. It’s this belief that lies at the core of Crowsnest Books, a new publishing house Wall will launch on July 1. He ... Read More »
June 6, 2018
Véhicule Press marketing manager Maya Assouad has returned to the office following her maternity leave, effective immediately. She can ... Read More »
June 4, 2018
Effective Sept. 1, Publishers Group Canada will begin distributing Faber ... Read More »
June 4, 2018
Dundurn acquisitions editor Scott Fraser has acquired world rights to Lorraine Davies’s debut novel, Jacintha, the story of a married man's fateful transgression, his longing for forgiveness, and his striving to understand a love that narrowly ... Read More »
June 4, 2018
Gaspereau Press publisher Andrew Steeves has observed that most of the visual arts related books produced today are either weighty full-colour tomes that double as decoration or academic catalogues written for very specific audiences. The ... Read More »
May 29, 2018
In June 2016, just a few weeks before the Canada Council for the Arts announced major changes to its granting system, Toronto author Trevor Cole was invited to be writer-in-residence at the Richmond Hill Public ... Read More »
May 29, 2018
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