Sarah MacLachlan will step down at the end of June as president and publisher of House of Anansi Press. Bruce Walsh has been named new publisher of Anansi.
Address change: Canadian Children’s Book Centre
Daily Deal: Alicia Elliott, Jenny Heijun Wills, Kamal Al-Solaylee to contribute to Book*hug Press anthology on language
Shaftesbury options Steve Burrows’s “Birder Murder Mysteries” series
The production company behind Murdoch Mysteries and Frankie Drake Mysteries has optioned Oshawa, Ontario writer Steve Burrows’s “Birder Murder Mysteries” series for television.
Mark Bourrie wins final Taylor Prize for Bush Runner
Ottawa journalist and historian Mark Bourrie takes home the $30,000 purse for his latest book, Bush Runner, published by Biblioasis.
How the ocean crisis transformed a storyteller of the sea into an environmental reporter
I wasn’t supposed to write an environmental book. I knew the ocean was in trouble. But that didn’t feel like my story.
Daily Deals: 19 international rights sales for Transatlantic Agency
Canadian publisher cancels London Book Fair appearance over coronavirus
Simon & Schuster Canada has confirmed it won’t attend the London Book Fair.
Celebrating the 10th anniversary of Room, Emma Donoghue says all novelists can be screenwriters
Donoghue spoke with Q&Q about the excitement of adaptations and why she believes any novelist can be a screenwriter.
Fawn Parker launches agency to champion literary fiction, poetry
On Feb. 25, Parker announced the first three authors signed to The Parker Agency.