It was in the process of cleaning out his home bookshelves some six years ago that David Caron hatched the idea that would grow into a new partnership with Annick Press. Caron, the owner and ... Read More »
August 31, 2020
In one of the more surprising announcements in recent memory, Toronto independent publisher ECW Press and children’s publisher Annick Press have entered into a collaborative partnership that will eventually see the transfer of majority ownership ... Read More »
August 27, 2020
Richard Gwyn had absolutely no interest in sports. For a British-born transplant to Canada, a country where an affinity for hockey is tantamount to a secular religion, that disinclination singled him out from the get-go. ... Read More »
August 27, 2020
The lavish volume Out North: An Archive of Queer Activism and Kinship in Canada (Figure 1 Publishing) brings together material from the ArQuives, the largest independent LGBTQ2+ archive in Canada. Co-authors Craig Jennex and Nisha ... Read More »
August 24, 2020
Ben McNally Books, one of Toronto’s most beloved independent bookstores, has received a temporary reprieve after Ben and Rupert McNally, the father-and-son proprietors, signed a short-term lease for a new location in the city’s downtown. ... Read More »
August 10, 2020
It’s no secret that the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in economic turmoil across the publishing and bookselling industries. But there is one area that has been unexpectedly vibrant according to several independent publishers: direct ... Read More »
July 13, 2020
COVID-19 is not like other pandemics. Unlike SARS or Ebola, chasing this novel coronavirus seems like shooting at a moving target. That assessment comes from someone who should know: veterinarian and epidemiologist David Waltner-Toews, whose ... Read More »
July 7, 2020
Novelists tend to be soothsayers, some more than others. When Saleema Nawaz completed the manuscript for her second novel, a polyphonic story about a group of people living through a global pandemic that is known ... Read More »
July 2, 2020
Everything about the life of Silver Donald Cameron seemed born out of story or storytelling, including his own rather idiosyncratic name. Born in Toronto and raised in Vancouver, in 1971 Cameron relocated to the small ... Read More »
June 18, 2020
Though Leona Trainer may not be an immediately recognizable name to people outside the Canadian publishing industry – and the area of children’s publishing in particular – within the industry she was known as an ... Read More »
June 4, 2020
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