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Publishing at the polls: Copyright reform

As Canadians head to the polls on May 2, Q&Q looks at key federal policies affecting the publishing industry. Stay tuned for upcoming features on federal funding, mass digitization, and foreign-ownership regulations. After nearly a ... Read More »

April 7, 2011 | Filed under: Book news, Industry news, Libraries, Opinion

Event photo: monsters in Lower Bay Station for Mind Gap

By Nathan Whitlock

At the end of March, Dundurn Press hosted a group of schoolkids in Toronto's seldom-seen Lower Bay Station to celebrate the release of Marina Cohen's novel Mind Gap. Given that the novel involves scary, supernatural ... Read More »

April 7, 2011 | Filed under: Book news

Book biz round-up: everybody loves a comeback

By Natalie Samson

The Cat in the Hat Comes Back ... again. Coming this fall, lost Dr. Seuss stories and Maurice Sendak's return to writing/illustrating Speaking of comebacks: Germany's audiobook renaissance What can e-book publishing learn from NPR? ... Read More »

April 7, 2011 | Filed under: Book news

Gerald Lampert and Pat Lowther shortlists announced

By Sue Carter

Shortlists for the annual Gerald Lampert Award and the Pat Lowther Memorial Award were announced last night at the National Poetry Month launch event in Toronto. The Gerald Lampert Award recognizes the best debut poetry ... Read More »

April 5, 2011 | Filed under: Awards, Book news

Book biz round-up: travelling literary journals, McSweeney’s cooks, and more

By Sue Carter

Travelling literary journals are hiding in Toronto coffee joints U.K. singer Kate Bush receives permission to use quotes from Joyce's Ulysses, and it only took 20 years Well before Williamsburg, Famous authors and their typewriters ... Read More »

April 5, 2011 | Filed under: Book news

Brand, Buffam, Steffler vie for 2011 Griffin Prize

By Stuart Woods

The 2011 Griffin Poetry Prize pits two established Canadian poets against a relative newcomer. McClelland & Stewart, the publisher with the most wins in the prize's 11-year history, has two titles on the Canadian shortlist: ... Read More »

April 5, 2011 | Filed under: Awards

U.K. poets band together to protest cuts

By Steven W. Beattie

It's National Poetry Month here in Canada, an annual initiative by the League of Canadian Poets to bring public attention to poetry. But across the Atlantic, the beginning of April more closely resembles T.S. Eliot's ... Read More »

April 4, 2011 | Filed under: Book news

Jeff Miller’s Ghost Pine wins at Expozine

By Sue Carter

The winners of the 2010 Expozine Alternative Press Awards were announced on Sunday at a ceremony in Montreal. Jeff Miller's Ghost Pine: All Stories True (Invisible Publishing) won for best English book and Qui Vive ... Read More »

April 4, 2011 | Filed under: Awards

Influential scholar dies just before new Malcolm X bio publishes

By Steven W. Beattie

Manning Marable, one of the most significant scholars devoted to post-war African-American life, spent 15 years working on an exhaustive biography of the great Civil Rights activist Malcolm X. The result, a 600-page tome called ... Read More »

April 4, 2011 | Filed under: Book news

Anansi puts Rob Ford on a streetcar

By Sue Carter

When House of Anansi Press was strategizing its marketing campaign for The Little Book of Rob Ford, a collection of quips, quotes, and colourful comments from Toronto's mayor, it took a more subtle approach than ... Read More »

April 1, 2011 | Filed under: Book news

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Quill and Quire

Publishing at the polls: Copyright reform

Event photo: monsters in Lower Bay Station for Mind Gap

Book biz round-up: everybody loves a comeback

Gerald Lampert and Pat Lowther shortlists announced

Book biz round-up: travelling literary journals, McSweeney’s cooks, and more

Brand, Buffam, Steffler vie for 2011 Griffin Prize

U.K. poets band together to protest cuts

Jeff Miller’s Ghost Pine wins at Expozine

Influential scholar dies just before new Malcolm X bio publishes

Anansi puts Rob Ford on a streetcar

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