2018 Shaughnessy Cohen Prize jury announced
Journalist Kady O’Malley, Indigenous governance scholar Taiaiake Alfred, and past prize-winner Joseph Heath have been named by the Writers’ Trust of Canada as the jury for the 2017 Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing.
Daily Deals: Awesome to develop Gillian Best’s The Last Wave for TV; U.S. rights for Carrianne Leung
Personnel change: The Rights Factory
Weston Prize winner Deborah Campbell joins University of Victoria’s department of writing
League of Canadian Poets announces 2018 awards longlists
To mark World Poetry Day, the League of Canadian Poets has announced the longlists for the three awards it administers: the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award, the Pat Lowther Memorial Award, and the Raymond Souster Award.
Canadian art-book publishers reach out to galleries and authors after U.K.’s Black Dog Publishing declares bankruptcy
Black Dog Publishing, the London, U.K., publisher of non-fiction books on art and culture, left numerous Canadian art galleries, artists, and authors in limbo when it laid off all 22 employees and shut its doors in January. Since then, Canadian art-book publishers, including the Magenta Foundation and Figure 1 Publishing, have reached out to those affected, inviting them to discuss domestic solutions.
Daily Deals: Foreign rights for Seth, Jillian Tamaki
Loan Stars: Librarians pick their favourite upcoming April titles
How the movie adaptation of Indian Horse stayed true to Richard Wagamese’s voice
It was his voice that caught her attention. On a Friday in early 2012, Christine Haebler, a producer at Screen Siren Pictures, was driving to work when she heard Richard Wagamese on CBC Radio talking to host Shelagh Rogers about Indian Horse, his novel about an Ojibwe boy named Saul who is traumatized at a residential school and finds possible salvation through hockey.
Contact us via email
