2013 Atlantic Book Award Winners Announced

Submitted by Tanya on Wed, 05/22/2013 - 09:39.
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The Atlantic Book Awards announced the 2013 winners on May 16th in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia at a sold out event hosted by CBC Radio's Louise Renault.

Congratulations to Goose Lane Editions and Breakwater Books on both taking home awards:

The Metamorphosis: The Apprenticeship of Harry Houdini by Bruce MacNab (Goose Lane) won the Atlantic Publishers Marketing Association's Best Atlantic-Published Book Award

In the Field by Joan Sullivan (Breakwater) won the Rogers Communications Award for Non-Fiction

Literary Press Group at the Professional Association of Canadian Theatre's Conference

Submitted by Tanya on Wed, 05/22/2013 - 09:12.
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The Literary Press Group is a non-profit organization of Canadian-owned and -operated publishers of fiction, poetry, drama, and other titles on the theatre. For a full list of our members, visit our Publishers page.

Attached is a list of the titles available during the 2013 PACT conference. If you have any questions about any of these titles, please get in touch.

 

LPG Publishers Sweep the Doug Wright Awards

Submitted by Tanya on Wed, 05/15/2013 - 11:10.
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Winners of the 2013 Doug Wright Awards were announded on May 12th as part of the Toronto Comic Arts Festival. The awards honour the legacy of the fantastic Canadian cartoonist Doug Wright and recognize the best in English-language comics and graphic novels published in the past year.

Congratulations to:

Michel Rabagliati for winning Best Book for The Song of Roland, published by Conundrum Press

Nina Bunjevac for winning the Spotlight Award for Heartless, published by Conundrum Press