Publisher's Weekly calls Andrew Pyper's The Killing Circle an "extraordinary thriller. . . . Powered by an ingeniously nonlinear narrative and suffused with a tone thick with dread, this is easily Pyper's most ambitious—and absorbing—work to date."

The Globe and Mail calls Pasha Malla "an impressive young voice that gives one hope for a future of new Canadian writing talent to the shine on the horizon."
The Globe and Mail review of The Withdrawal Method

For all those interested in Canadian literature, please click here for a provocative Giller related essay, from Alex Good in Canadian Notes and Queries.

Andrew Westoll won the gold medal for travel writing at the National Magazine Awards, for his article "Somewhere Up a Jungle River" in Explore. The article is an adapted excerpt from his forthcoming book The Riverbones.

Steven Heighton won the gold medal for fiction, for his short story "The Dead Are More Visible," published in
The Walrus.

James MacKinnon won the silver medal in the columns category for a series of articles in Explore.

Pasha Malla's widely praised debut, The Withdrawal Method is launching at The Gladstone Hotel on Wednesday
May 28. Check out the National Post's THE FILM WE MADE ABOUT PASHA MALLA for a preview...

Andrew Hood has won the $10,000.00 Danuta Gleed Literary Award for his short story collection, Pardon Our Monsters. The award is given to the best English-language collection of short fiction by a Canadian author published each year. cbc.ca

We are pleased to announce that THE KILLING CIRCLE, Andrew Pyper’s new novel, has been acquired for adaptation to feature film by the London-based Cowboy Films (Oscar-winning producers of THE LAST KING OF SCOTLAND), in association with Brilliant Films, with Justin Chadwick (THE OTHER BOLEYN GIRL, BLEAK HOUSE) attached to direct.

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In the awards ceremony performed yesterday, Don Hannah won the Thomas Head Raddall Fiction Prize for his novel RAGGED ISLANDS. The award recognizes the best work of fiction written by a native or resident Atlantic Canadian published in the previous calendar year. After Tom’s death in 1994, the continued vision and the enormous generosity of the Raddall family has seen this endowment grow to the point where it now provides $15,000 to the winning author.

Michael Crummey was awarded the Writers' Trust of Canada's Timothy Findley Award at the Writers' Trust gala on Tuesday evening. The $15,000.00 award is given annually to a male writer at mid-career, in honour of the late Timothy Findley.

Among the finalists, Shaena Lambert's Radiance for the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize, as well as J.B. MacKinnon and Alisa Smith's 100 Mile Diet for the Hubert Evan's Non-Fiction prize and the Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize. The winners will be announced Arpil 26th. Please click here for the press release.

Shaena Lambert's debut novel Radiance is a finalist for the 2007 Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize. The other nominees are M.G. Vassanji, Lawrence Hill, Robert Hough and Nancy Huston. See Writers' Trust of Canada.

We are pleased to announce that a film option for Camilla Gibb's SWEETNESS IN THE BELLY has been sold to Naomi Despres at Giant Door Productions. Naomi and her L.A. based production company have been responsible for such films as 21 Grams and Winged Creatures. They are currently in talks with Ian Iqbal Rashid, whose film How She Move has just been released,  to write and direct.



click here for deal announcement in Globe & Mail's The Biz

Outside the Wire hits the Toronto Star Bestseller list.

Kevin Patterson was interviewed by Seamus O'Regan on CTV's Canada AM about Outside the Wire and his experiences in Afghanistan. See the January 14 broadcast here.

Patterson was also interviewed on the CBC's As it Happens. Listen to the January 14 interview here.