Congratulations to Andrew Wilmot, who has won the ECW Press Best New Speculative Novel contest (out of over 170 applicants)! Their novel, Withered, will be published in 2024, with world rights sold to ECW Press.
Author: Kelvin
North American rights sold for a not-yet-named collection of three novellas by A.G. Pasquella, Why Not a Spider Monkey Jesus?, New Town, and The This and the That, for publication Fall 2022, to Paul Vermeersch at Buckrider Books/Wolsak & Wynn.
World rights sold to Daniel Innes and Christina Wong‘s Denison Avenue, a story told in two parts as a graphic novel and novella, about elderly Wong Cho Sum’s attempt to cope with the death of her husband by taking up bottle and can collecting, amidst the greater theme of the price of progress in cities like Toronto and those it leaves behind, to Jen Sookfong Lee at ECW Press.
K2 Literary is thrilled and proud to welcome three new clients: Sheung-King, Daniel Innes, and Christina Wong.
Daniel Innes and Christina Wong are illustrator and author on DENISON AVENUE, a graphic novel/novella project, with more news will be announced tomorrow!
Sheung-King‘s You are Eating an Orange. You are Naked. (Book*hug) was one of The Globe and Mail‘s best book debuts of 2020, nominated for 2021 CBC’s Canada Reads, and finalist for the 2021 Amazon Canada First Novel Award, as well as the 2021 Governor General’s Literary Award.
There are some very exciting projects on the way, and we’re excited to share more news very soon!
Congratulations to Matt Cahill, who will be working with Buckrider Books/Wolsak & Wynn and editor Paul Vermeersch on RADIOLAND, coming out Fall 2022!
For those of you who missed it, you can watch Julia Zarankin’s launch for FIELD NOTES FROM AN UNINTENTIONAL BIRDER on Birds Canada’s Facebook Page! Link is below.
FIELD NOTES FROM AN UNINTENTIONAL BIRDER launch on Facebook
And of course, the book is out now, available online or in-store from your favourite bookseller.
Take it from Margaret Atwood, she likes the book!
K2 Literary’s Fall catalogues are here!
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J.J. Dupuis is interviewed in The Toronto Star about The Quarantine Review, a new literary journal focusing on writing projects started during the Covid-19 lockdown.
The first issue comes out this June through your favourite ebook retailers:
Proceeds will go to the Red Door Family Shelter.
In a reality where our lives are disrupted by Covid-19, author of Field Notes from an Unintentional Birder Julia Zarankin considers how we may all become (unintentional) birders, in an Opinion piece in The Globe and Mail.
Join J.J. Dupuis and Dundurn Press for the launch of J.J.’s debut novel Roanoke Ridge, at the Dora Keogh on Wednesday 11 March, 7pm @ The Dora Keogh! Find out more by clicking the image below.
