The 13 winners of the 2018 Atlantic Book Awards, celebrating excellence in East Coast writing and book publishing, were announced on May 10.
Willow Dawson and Shelley Tanaka adapt 150-year-old fairy tales of Franz Xaver von Schönwerth
When, in 2009, Toronto author-illustrator Willow Dawson read that 500 lost fairy tales had been discovered in a German archive, she felt an immediate sense of intrigue and connection.
Daily Deals: Penguin acquires Robyn Doolittle book on sexual assault
The Donner Prize marks 20 years of awarding books on Canadian public policy
This year, the Donner Prize, which recognizes the best in public policy writing in Canada, celebrates its 20th anniversary.
Scaachi Koul on the Leacock Medal’s historic all-female shortlist
For the first time in the 71-year history of the Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour, all three shortlisted authors are female.
Spotlight on Nova Scotia: Fernwood Publishing looks to expand its audience beyond academia
Since its founding by Errol Sharpe in 1992, Fernwood Publishing has focused on books with social-justice themes, often from a radical perspective, in an effort to challenge mainstream thinking. The bread and butter for the company – which has offices in Black Point, Nova Scotia, and Winnipeg, Manitoba – has always been academic sales.
Koyama Press gives celebrated Toronto artist Fiona Smyth her first retrospective collection
For 35 years, Smyth has immersed herself in the city’s artistic community creating comics, paintings, and books. While generations of Torontonians are familiar with Smyth’s work – or at least her event posters and the iconic signage at Sneaky Dee’s bar – she hasn’t achieved household-name status like some of her contemporaries.
Daily Deals: foreign rights for Marcello Di Cintio; six-figure deal for Dan Bar-el
Sheree Fitch and Emma FitzGerald take readers to EveryBody Street
Sheree Fitch and Emma FitzGerald come together for a picture book release of Fitch’s 2001 poem about mental illness and addiction
Tanya Talaga named winner of the Writers’ Trust of Canada Shaughnessy Cohen Prize
Tanya Talaga added another laurel to those already bestowed upon her debut work of non-fiction.
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