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Adam Dickinson, Valzhyna Mort, and Claudia Rankine named 2022 Griffin Poetry Prize judges

The judges for the 2022 Griffin Poetry Prize were announced by The Griffin Trust For Excellence In Poetry. They are Adam Dickinson (Canada), Valzhyna Mort (Belarus) – winner of the 2021 International Griffin Poetry Prize, ... Read More »

September 21, 2021

Rights Deals: Tanya Talaga, Uzma Jalaluddin + 2 more

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HarperCollins Canada has acquired world rights in all languages to three books from award-winning author and journalist Tanya Talaga. The first of the nonfiction titles is described as focusing on residential schools, exploring why the ... Read More »

August 12, 2021

Rights Deals: Lisa Bird-Wilson and Carmen Aguirre

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Knopf Canada’s publisher Martha Kanya-Forstner has acquired Canadian English rights to Lisa Bird-Wilson’s Magpie Dreams. The memoir is described as an investigation of her history as an Indigenous child adopted by non-Indigenous parents. Publication is ... Read More »

August 9, 2021

Rights Deals: Michie Mee, Lana Shupe, and Marla Lesage + 2 more

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Random House Canada’s Sue Kuruvilla has acquired world rights to the yet untitled memoir from Canadian music legend and hip-hop pioneer Michie Mee. The memoir is described as looking at Michie’s life and career, from ... Read More »

August 5, 2021

Rights Deals: Larissa Lai, Scott Chantler + 2 more

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Arsenal Pulp Press publisher Brian Lam has acquired world rights to Larissa Lai’s The Lost Century. The novel is a follow-up to the Lambda Literary Award-winning The Tiger Flu, set in Hong Kong in the 1930s ... Read More »

August 4, 2021

Distribution change: Page Street Publishing

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Effective August 1, 2021, Page Street Publishing will be distributed in Canada by University of Toronto Press ... Read More »

July 30, 2021

Distribution change: teNeues Publishing Group

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Effective immediately, Fitzhenry & Whiteside is no longer the distributor ... Read More »

July 7, 2021

A Press from Scratch: How Hush Harbour makes caring for ourselves and our associates our top priority

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Many publishing houses in this country were built on intergenerational wealth or Canadiana rhetoric; both perpetuate a narrative of a nationstate on stolen land. The founders then find successors to continue that legacy. Our Black ... Read More »

June 14, 2021

Ethical remembering: Lisa Bird-Wilson writes “the history of our communities is full of love”

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When I was in the midst of working on my 2016 poetry collection, The Red Files (Nightwood Editions), which reflects on the legacy of the residential school system – its impacts on families and histories ... Read More »

June 10, 2021

Personnel change: Figure 1 Publishing

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Steve Cameron has joined Figure 1 Publishing as senior editor. Based in Toronto, Cameron will lead acquisitions in central and eastern Canada and the U.S. He will edit and project manage a dozen titles per year. Cameron ... Read More »

June 2, 2021

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Adam Dickinson, Valzhyna Mort, and Claudia Rankine named 2022 Griffin Poetry Prize judges

Rights Deals: Tanya Talaga, Uzma Jalaluddin + 2 more

Rights Deals: Lisa Bird-Wilson and Carmen Aguirre

Rights Deals: Michie Mee, Lana Shupe, and Marla Lesage + 2 more

Rights Deals: Larissa Lai, Scott Chantler + 2 more

Distribution change: Page Street Publishing

Distribution change: teNeues Publishing Group

A Press from Scratch: How Hush Harbour makes caring for ourselves and our associates our top priority

Ethical remembering: Lisa Bird-Wilson writes “the history of our communities is full of love”

Personnel change: Figure 1 Publishing

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