Calgary-based author and former journalist Monica Kidd is joining Pedlar Press as acquisitions editor and production manager, effective Aug. 1.
Daily Deals: Arsenal Pulp picks up Teresa Wong’s graphic novel debut
Personnel change: Vancouver’s ZG Communications expands
Transatlantic Agency bolsters U.S. presence as Jill Corcoran named partner
On July 16, Toronto-based literary agency Transatlantic announced Jill Corcoran, president of Jill Corcoran Literary Agency, as partner and senior agent.
Answer ACP’s survey on diversity in publishing
The Association of Canadian Publishers is conducting a survey of diversity within the Canadian publishing industry.
How Geneviève Castrée’s posthumous A Bubble came to be
“In her final weeks alive, Geneviève clung to finishing this book for our daughter with intense focus and devotion.”
Crwth Press saves Sono Nis children’s books after the fire
After two years in limbo, British Columbia authors and illustrators will see their books in print.
Margaret Atwood, Anne Carson, and Kim Thúy to compete for Nobel alternative
Canadian authors Margaret Atwood, Anne Carson, and Kim Thúy have been long-listed for the New Academy Prize in Literature, an alternative to the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Distribution change: Georgetown Publications
Authors band together to fight threatened Indigenous curriculum in Ontario
In the wake of the cancellation of sessions to update how Indigenous issues are taught in the public-school curriculum, writers Cherie Dimaline, Monique Gray Smith, and Tracey Lindberg have pledged to donate their books to classrooms.