Canada English rights to New Yorker cartoonist and MFA graduate Gabrielle Drolet's LOOK MA, NO HANDS, a humorous memoir with illustrations that explores the complexity of developing disabling and life-altering pain in her twenties, learning to write when she couldn't type, cook when she couldn't chop, assemble IKEA furniture when she couldn't twist an Allen Key, and navigate byzantine health systems without the privilege or security of a family doctor…
Read MoreCanada English rights to multiple award-winning journalist and former CBC radio host Carol Off’s AT A LOSS FOR WORDS: WHY WE CAN’T TALK TO EACH OTHER, a blend of history, culture, politics and front-line reporting structured around six words whose meanings have been distorted and weaponized, including “freedom,” “democracy” and “truth,” and how we need to reclaim their value in order to find our way back to civility…
Read MoreGriffin Poetry Prize recipient and Creative Writing Professor Billy-Ray Belcourt’s THE IDEA OF AN ENTIRE LIFE, a highly anticipated and multilayered poetry collection that combines lyric verse, sonnets, fieldnotes, and fragments to create a poignant examination of twenty-first century anguish, love, queerness, and political possibility…
Read More2023 Bronwen Wallace Award winner, PhD candidate, and U.S. Army veteran Zak Jones’ FANCY GAP, a debut novel set in the eponymous mountain region connecting North Carolina to Virginia, following a troubled family—the less-than-honorably discharged Corporal Dalton Fuquay and his teen brother Messiah, whom Dalton must save from their dangerous grandmother and the self-radicalized, born-again muster of acolytes she commands—being torn apart by mental and physical illness, opioid addiction, and poverty
Read MoreAuthor, screenwriter, and musician Rob Benvie's BOOK OF THE FLOCK, a galloping, incendiary tale set in the undeveloped Adirondack Mountains of the early 1950s, following the young Morley sisters as they flee their burning past only to take refuge among a derelict utopian community led by a tempestuous and charismatic leader, exploring the medium of the cult novel and themes of progress and persuasion…
Read More2021 Writers' Trust of Canada Rising Star Eddy Boudel Tan’s THE TIGER AND THE COSMONAUT, an atmospheric upmarket page-turner about a family processing a mysterious loss from their past, exploring how the insecurities of Asian immigrants are exploited in their isolated town, how the expectations placed on the second generation are chafed against, and how a current of rage simmers beneath the composed veneers of both…
Read MoreAuthor of the award-winning bestselling memoir and 2021 Kobo Emerging Writer Prize for Non-Fiction THEY SAID THIS WOULD BE FUN, Eternity Martis’s debut novel WHITE LIES, a darkly humourous satire-drama inspired by a culture of white women behaving badly (and the patriarchal influences that lets them) and the dark and messy side of female friendships…
Read MoreLeméac Éditeur has acquired French in North America rights to Michael Crummey’s THE ADVERSARY in an exclusive submission…
Read MoreLes Éditions du Boréal has acquired French in North America rights to Cherie Dimaline’s FUNERAL SONGS FOR DYING GIRLS in an exclusive submission…
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