September 14, 2020
Sydney Smith has won the first annual Sheila Barry Best Canadian Picturebook of the Year Award for Small in the City The book, about a boy navigating his way through a busy city, is published ... Read More »
September 9, 2020
Anumeha Gokhale has joined Fernwood Publishing as marketing, sales and distribution manager. Anumeha, a graduate of SFU's Master of Publishing program, previously worked with Lancaster House and Arsenal Pulp Press. Gokhale can be reached at anumeha@fernpub.ca. ... Read More »
September 2, 2020
More than a decade ago, when Matthew Cole was in school at Western University in London, Ontario, he took advantage of the free student access to the Toronto Star archives. He loved scouring through old ... Read More »
August 27, 2020
Antigonish is perhaps best known for the letter X. The Nova Scotian town is home to St. Francis Xavier University, whose graduates wear a ring, presented each year at a dedicated ceremony, bearing an X ... Read More »
August 24, 2020
It began with the perfect location. Late in fall 2019, author and conservationist Ian Gill and Zoe Grams, founder of the literary marketing agency ZG Stories, discovered a vacant retail storefront on Vancouver’s culturally rich ... Read More »
August 20, 2020
It appears that there's another player about to enter the competitive audiobook market. Popular music-streaming service Spotify is looking to hire a head of audiobooks based out of either New York City or Los Angeles. The ... Read More »
August 19, 2020
The Stephen Leacock Medal, which has been presented to Canadian books of humour since 1947, is in financial difficulty. For the past three years, the award program – run by the non-profit Stephen Leacock Associates ... Read More »
August 17, 2020
When it comes to Prairie publishing, Calgary's JoAnn McCaig is a force to reckon with. The owner of the Calgary literary press Freehand Books and CEO of the independent bookstore Shelf Life Books has now purchased ... Read More »
August 17, 2020
Since opening in June 2017, Vancouver’s Massy Books has established itself as a champion of LGBTQ2S+ writers, along with Black, Indigenous, and other authors of colour. But owner Patricia Massy had a broader vision to ... Read More »
August 13, 2020
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