HarperCollins editorial director Jennifer Lambert has acquired Jael Richardson’s debut novel, Gutter Child.
Remembering David McFadden, 1940–2018
“I am happy,” wrote the poet David McFadden in a 2014 article for Toronto Life.
Daily Deals: U.K. rights acquired for Shaughnessy Bishop-Stall’s Hungover
Q&A: Griffin Poetry Prize winner Billy-Ray Belcourt
On June 7, Billy-Ray Belcourt became the youngest recipient to take home the $65,000 Griffin Poetry Prize.
Address change: Cormorant Books
Jennifer Craig wins Leacock Medal for Gone to Pot
Nelson, B.C.-based author Jennifer Craig has won the $15,000 Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour for Gone to Pot.
Daily Deals: Anansi acquires Michael Melgaard’s short-story collection Coming and Going
At 23, Billy-Ray Belcourt becomes youngest winner of the Griffin Poetry Prize
Billy-Ray Belcourt, self-described “writer and academic and hopeless romantic,” won the Canadian Griffin Poetry Prize on June 7 for his debut collection of poetry, This Wound is a World (Frontenac House).
Personnel change: Word Vancouver hires Chelene Knight as executive director
The Word Vancouver festival has hired Chelene Knight as executive director.
Pedlar Press founder Beth Follett looks forward to returning to her own writing after more than 20 years of nurturing writers’ books
When Pedlar Press founder Beth Follett was a young woman growing up in 1970s Winnipeg, she wanted to become a poet.
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