New Anansi board is a move toward “strategic” collaboration, says owner Scott Griffin
Griffin denies any conflict of interest between Anansi and Sutherland House.
Semareh Al-Hillal out at Anansi, new Board of Directors includes Kenneth Whyte and Martha Sharpe
An email dated October 8, 2025 and sent on behalf of Anansi publisher Karen Brochu outlines the changes.
Survival skills: In his memoir A Precarious Enterprise, former D&M co-founder Scott McIntyre reflects on the roller coaster that is Canadian independent publishing
McIntyre's book should serve as an inspiring corrective to anyone who believes that Canadian publishing is a failing endeavour.
Lindsay Wong partners with Arsenal Pulp in initiative to support emerging BIPOC writers
"It's so hard to get published if you're writing from a racialized and marginalized identity."
Edmonton’s NeWest Press expands its output with Barbour Books, an imprint devoted to speculative fiction
"We're basically interested in anything speculative and outside the ordinary."
Jonathan Karp stepping down as CEO of Simon & Schuster to launch new imprint
The five years Karp spent in the top job at S&S were among the most turbulent in the publisher's 100 year history.
EMWF exec director has ties to foundation with financial interest in AI once set to appear at fest
Jasper Smith, executive director at EMWF, is professionally associated with the Musagetes Foundation.
Dana A. Williams’s new book about Toni Morrison’s time at Random House shines a light – albeit a limited one – on an underexplored aspect of the writer’s career
The picture that emerges of Morrison as editor is of someone simultaneously dedicated to her authors and interested in helping them find wide audiences while also firm – not to say obstinate – in her opinion of her own editorial talent.
Elbows Up! anthology from M&S aims to update an earlier volume of patriotic and nationalistic essays
Certainly Canadian cultural nationalism does not look the same today as it did in 1968.
McClelland & Stewart launches Kanata Classics as an act of reconciliation to reclaim and expand the literary classics space
"It became really clear that Canadian publishers generally are not putting enough effort into the classics space."