On April 8, Margaret Atwood greeted a full house at an onstage event and book signing for the reissue of her 1985 novel The Handmaid’s Tale (Emblem Editions) at the Indigo Books & Music store ... Read More »
April 26, 2017
The Labrador Inuit coastal region of Nunatsiavut officially became self-governed in 2005, following years of land-claim negotiations. Although Nunatsiavut’s autonomy is relatively new, its residents have been producing unique, but overlooked, art for generations. SakKijâjuk: ... Read More »
April 24, 2017
The Vancouver Public Library’s nə́c̓aʔmat ct Strathcona branch officially opened its doors on April 19, following a Coast Salish ceremony. The unique Downtown Eastside building – funded by the VPL, the City of Vancouver, and ... Read More »
April 20, 2017 | Filed under: Libraries
The Vancouver Sun has informed B.C. publishers it plans to cut the dedicated page of local book coverage in its Saturday edition, effective April 22. Heidi Waechtler, executive director of the Association of Book Publishers of British ... Read More »
April 20, 2017
Prolific author, poet, screenwriter (and former rodeo clown) Christopher Gudgeon launches his new story collection, The Encyclopedia of Lies (Anvil Press), tonight at Glad Day Books in Toronto. Q&Q spoke to Gudgeon about his recent ... Read More »
April 19, 2017 | Filed under: Authors
Effective May 1, UBC Press will no longer distribute Transaction Publishers. Pearson Education will become the Canadian distributors of all Transaction Publishers titles. UTP Distribution, the warehouse for UBC Press, will accept returns until July ... Read More »
April 18, 2017
Five titles have been shortlisted for this year's Amazon.ca First Novel Award. The finalists were selected by author Tanis MacDonald, who will decide the $40,000 winner along with jurors Casey Plett and Gurjinder Basran. The ... Read More »
April 17, 2017 | Filed under: Awards
The Vancouver Women’s Library, while not a bookseller, was founded to fill a gap left more than a decade ago by the closure of Women in Print and the Vancouver Women’s Bookstore. On Feb. 3, ... Read More »
April 17, 2017
Ampersand Inc., the national book and gift sales agency, enjoyed a double celebration on its recent 50th anniversary. The company threw a party in Toronto on April 11 for its local colleagues and industry friends, with ... Read More »
April 17, 2017
Two Canadian houses, Vancouver's Greystone Books and Halifax's Nimbus Publishing, have made the annual Publishers Weekly list of the fastest-growing indie publishers. According to the survey, Greystone is the fourth fast-growing independent publisher in Canada and the ... Read More »
April 13, 2017
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