Julie Morstad has won the $1,000 Elizabeth Mrazik-Cleaver Canadian Picture Book Award for illustrating the picture book Bloom: A Story of Fashion Designer Elsa Schiaparelli.
Raincoast Books co-founder Allan MacDougall: 1947–2019
After a long battle with Alzheimer’s disease, Allan MacDougall, the co-founder and former CEO of Raincoast Books, passed away on Feb. 19 at the age of 71.
Daily Deals: NeWest Press acquires poetry collection from Meredith Quartermain, thriller from Mark Lisac
Anansi to publish Kurdish journalist Behrouz Boochani’s account of unlawful imprisonment
House of Anansi Press has secured North American rights to Kurdish journalist Behrouz Boochani’s award-winning No Friend but the Mountains: Writing from Manus Prison.
Daily Deals: Jaime Burnet to publish Halifax-set debut novel with Vagrant Press
University of Regina Press dominates Saskatchewan Book Awards shortlists
University of Regina Press has received the most nominations for this year’s Saskatchewan Book Awards, with 13 nods in author categories and another 11 for publishing.
Personnel change: Cooke International
Running the Goat, Books & Broadsides publisher Marnie Parsons on publishing Jan Andrews’s final novel
On Feb. 28, Running the Goat, Books & Broadsides will publish To See the Stars, a historical YA novel set in Newfoundland and New York City, by the late Jan Andrews.
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