The $50,000 prize is presented to a mid-career writer who has “demonstrated exceptional creative ability and outstanding promise in their publications to date.”
Personnel change: Leyla Top named engagement manager for LPG
Daily Deals: Dundurn acquires new novel from Leslie Shimotakahara; M&S to publish debut novel from Cedar Bowers
A new way to take students on a Great Canadian Road Trip
Released in September, The Great Canadian Road Trip is a set of 13 books, each focused on a different Canadian province or territory and designed for Grades 4 to 6.
When first-time illustrator Derek Desierto met fashion icon Eva Chen
In their first book, Juno Valentine and the Magical Shoes, a young girl literally steps into the footwear of famous women, from Jane Goodall to Lady Gaga.
Daily Deals: Meaghan McIsaac’s debut picture book to Kane Press
Daily Deals: D&M acquires Anne Bokma’s My Year of Living Spiritually
Rupi Kaur to provide foreword for Penguin Classics’s new edition of The Prophet
Kahlil Gibran super-fan Rupi Kaur is providing a foreword for a new hardcover edition of the Lebanese-American poet’s best known work.
Copyright Board of Canada fills final two vacancies
Navdeep Bains, minister of innovation, science, and economic development, has appointed economist Katherine M. Braun and Université du Québec à Montréal law professor René Côté to fill the remaining two vacancies on the Copyright Board of Canada.
Elizabeth Hay, Kathy Page win 2018 Writers’ Trust awards
The Writers’ Trust of Canada has announced its 2018 winners.